Company Also Announces New Extended Warranty Coverage
Garmin announced Monday at NBAA 2008 its new "King Air Platinum
Package," for King Air C90, 200 and B200 owners who place an order
for the retrofit G1000 integrated flight deck by November 30,
2008.
The Platinum Package offers a substantial savings on the most
popular G1000 options: Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT), Garmin
Chartview that displays Jeppesen charts, and GRC/GRT XM radio
remote control.
"The King Air C90 and 200 are the first aircraft to be eligible
for a G1000 retrofit, and customers have jumped at the chance to
have Garmin-glass in the flight deck of the aircraft they already
know and love flying," said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice
president of marketing. "Throughout the King Air 200 STC program,
we’ve gone to great lengths to ensure that when completed it
will include common King Air configurations such as Black Hawk
engines and the STC for full RVSM certification. Pilots who look at
the features of the G1000 retrofit realize it’s a tremendous
bang-for-the buck, not to mention a huge leap forward in terms of
safety of flight and situational awareness."
The King Air G1000 retrofit
flight deck is the industry’s first G1000 retrofit avionics
package. It integrates all primary flight, navigation,
communication, terrain, traffic, weather and engine instrumentation
system (EIS) on a large 15-inch multi-function display (MFD) and
two 10.4-inch primary flight displays (PFD). The G1000 retrofit
system includes Garmin’s GFC 700 three axis, fully digital,
dual channel, fail passive automatic flight control system (AFCS).
The GFC 700 has features not typically found in this class of
aircraft like coupled wide area augmentation system (WAAS)
approaches, coupled vertical navigation and flight level change
(FLC).
The King Air Platinum Package’s most popular feature, SVT,
presents a 3D depiction of terrain, obstacles and traffic on the
G1000’s PFD so that the avionics panel replicates what pilots
would see outside the cockpit on a clear day.
Garmin was awarded supplemental type certification (STC) for the
G1000 flight deck in the King Air C90A/GT in November 2007, and
expects to receive the STC for the King Air 200 and B200 in early
2009.
The company also announced its new FliteLevel Extended Warranty,
which offers complete system wide maintenance protection for
everything from cockpit displays to remote LRUs. It is designed to
give owners comprehensive protection against unexpected product
failures when their standard two-year factory warranty expires.
"FliteLevel gives owners peace of mind and helps them avoid
unscheduled downtime, service costs and headaches," said Matt
Harrah, Garmin’s director of aviation product support.
With various fixed price coverage plans to chose from, owners
can evaluate their needs and budget and enroll in the plan that
best meets their requirements. Plan options include those where
Garmin covers local shop labor and replacement charges, or LRU
exchanges and flat-rate factory repair fees only. FliteLevel also
includes Garmin’s LRU exchange program, which ensures a quick
replacement of faulty "black box" remote units, should one ever
occur.
FliteLevel is available through OEMs and Garmin authorized
service centers, depending on the airframe manufacturer. It is
supported by Garmin’s global network of Authorized Sales and
Service outlets that are based at hundreds of worldwide locations.
Service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and
includes AOG emergency service.
Garmin’s FliteLevel service is fully transferable if
during the warranty period the aircraft is sold to a new owner.