System To Be Unveiled Next Month In Lakeland
Avidyne Corporation has presented its Technical Achievement
Award for 2007 to senior engineer Steve Lindsley for his
contribution to the development of an intuitive, high-integrated,
dual-redundant Flight Management System (FMS) for general aviation
(GA). The official introduction of the new FMS will be early next
month in Lakeland, FL.
Lindsley, who joined Avidyne in 2004, earned previous awards for
technical achievement during a distinguished career at Honeywell
Defense Avionics Systems in Albuquerque, NM.
"There is no doubt that Steve’s contribution to the
architecture of this FMS has helped Avidyne accomplish its mission
of bringing an integrated flight deck to general aviation
aircraft," said Avidyne Chief Executive Officer Dan Schwinn, in
announcing the award. "Steve’s work has been instrumental in
creating a Flight Management System that will appeal to pilots
across the general aviation product spectrum. It will lighten the
workload of pilots operating turbine-class aircraft and will be
great for VFR pilots who fly simple direct-to flights, as
well. There’s virtually no part of this system that he
hasn’t designed or built. He’s definitely deserving of
this recognition," Schwinn added.
The FMS that Lindsley helped develop is designed to be the
easiest-to-use system available for GA. It is a fully-compliant
RTCA DO-229D, Gamma 3 navigation system that allows pilots to fly
WAAS precision approaches to ILS minimums, and is designed for
Required Navigation Performance (RNP). Patent-pending GeoFill
capability makes entering a complex flight plan nearly as simple as
tuning the aircraft’s radios, reducing pilot workload
significantly. Its unique Vectors Mode also contributes to
situational awareness, by drawing heading vectors onto the
system’s moving map.
Lindsley received the 2007 Technical Achievement Award on March
18. He is the third recipient of the honor.
In 2004, current Avidyne Director of Engineering (then senior
engineer) Mark Krebs won the company’s first Technical
Achievement Award for his work on the development and certification
of the world’s first low-cost, solid-state Air Data and
Attitude Heading Reference System (ADAHRS) for general aviation. It
became the heart of Avidyne’s Entegra Integrated Flight
Deck.
In 2006, Senior Software Engineer Sami Wahab was honored with
the Avidyne Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to
the development of Avidyne’s all software, digital VHF
NAV/COM radios which were certified that same year on the Eclipse
500 VLJ.