Announced Only A Month Ago... And Already In The Field
Ya gotta give them
credit, when they get a burr under their saddle, there's just no
stopping them. Avidyne, over the course of less than a month has
gone from announcement to delivery of their next-generation
integrated flight deck -- in a Cirrus SR22.
"This Entegra Release 9 installation was started just days after
we received our Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval and
the time from aircraft arrival to customer delivery was under two
weeks," said Patrick Herguth, Avidyne's Chief Operating Officer.
"This installation validates the well thought out and time-saving
benefits of our pre-fabricated retrofit wiring harness and our
highly-detailed retrofit instructions, which were designed to
reduce aircraft down time and overall installation costs. For a
first-customer installation, it really could not have gone much
smoother."
"Entegra Release 9 is the culmination of years of research and
development and we are delighted with the results, having created
the easiest-to-use flight deck in all of aviation," said Dan
Schwinn, Avidyne's President and CEO. "Entegra owners now have
access to all the benefits of the Release 9 upgrade and they only
have to be without their aircraft for a short amount of time in
order to get it."
"This program is a real credit to the efforts of our entire
development team. Aircraft arrival to first flight was accomplished
in one week, and we had customer delivery within two weeks," said
Rob Higby, Avidyne's Vice President of Sales, Marketing and
Customer Service. "With Entegra Release 9, we have an 'Installation
Made Simple' solution to ensure an easy upgrade with predictable
down time."
A network of Avidyne-approved installation centers are starting
to work on multiple Entegra Release 9 installations, and Avidyne
has developed a full schedule of "Entegra Release 9 Across America"
Fly-Ins and Demonstration Seminars. In addition to this schedule,
Avidyne will be exhibiting and hosting Entegra Release 9 flight
demos at the upcoming Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association Annual
Migration (M7) in Duluth, MN on June 25-28, 2009.
The retail price of the Entegra Release 9 retrofit for Cirrus
SR20 & SR22 is $72,800 which includes dual XGA displays, FMS
keyboard, dual GPS/FMS receivers, dual 16-watt VHF COMM radios, and
MLB700 XM/SIRIUS Broadcast datalink receiver.