intial design release questions....

Hi Tony,

Gladly.

Yes it will.

Thank you Victor, those are very kind words.

As a general rule, if the questions might be useful to others, the forum seems like a better choice but if it's very specific to your situation, email sounds better.

In either case, my email is sjacobson@avidyne.com

Hi Tim,

Perhaps a better way to ask that question:  When is your FQT scheduled and how long after that will it take for you to submitt those reults and the sas?

Tim, Tony,

We don't use "FQT" in our lingo but from the context, I'm assuming it means "Final Qual Test".  The typical interaction with the FAA on a program like the IFD540 cert is a long term engagement with a series of deliverables that are spread out across the life of the project.  It sounds like the ones you are asking about are the "end game" milestones and document sets.


We do expect to have some intermediate product "familiarization" interactions with the FAA during the course of the summer.  There *may* be a human factors review of the product by a group of FAA evaluators when the product is declared to be fully representative of the to-be-certified unit by us.  The final end-game milestones are the submission for TIA (Type Inspection Authorization) which is considered the final exam ground and flight tests by the FAA and all of our final compliance documentation.   Since there are literally dozens of submissions, I fear this response is too general.


It is these final compliance document submissions and TIA that we are driving for the end of 2012.  Predicting the duration between submission and FAA approval is a fools game.  We've seen turn-arounds in as short as 1 week in the past and some as long as 4 months.

AviJake wrote: I'll answer your first question with both a "yes" and a "no". To amplify that a little - first let me say that everything that can be done on a GNS530W can be done on an IFD540 at initial release except HTAWS (fixed wing TAWS is part of initial release).

Old Bob,

Larry,

Still refining the details on the 396 data display answer.  Haven't forgotten.....

Steve

ok, I have another question for the design team.  I see avidyne is one of the partners for the aspen connected panel interface.  So will I be able to bring my Ipad, running foreflight, into the cockpit and down load my flight plan from my Ipad into the IFD540? Then use the IFD540 as the certified nav solution for the aircraft while monitoring how the weather (using the new stratus receiver) will impact my flight?  If there is an issue, then rubber band the flight plan on the ipad and upload the updates into the IFD540?

Larry,

LarryPetro wrote: Will the IFD540 display lightning strikes from the TWX670 in the same manner as the MHD300, or will it display in compatability mode, or not at all? I greatly appreciate Tom Harper's excellent presentation on the IFD540 on the 29th and am looking forward to being able to download the recorded version.

Thanks for the information -- much appreciated.  Sounds like it will be a great setup with the 396 and the TWX670.

Hi Victor,

Hi Old Bob,

Hi Victor,

Yes, the traffic symbols do change color on both the thumbnail and map depending on threat level.    And yes, the alerts on the ALERTS tab are color coded and displayed in threat priority level of Red, Yellow and Cyan.

It depends.   The ability of a traffic system to annunciate is a function of the traffic system itself and whether it has an output line to the audio panel.   Most mainstream traffic systems have some aural alerting capability and the Avidyne TAS 6xx systems lead that pack by verbally annunciating clock position, relative height and distance.  We have always thought that one of the worst times to bring your head into the cockpit is during a real traffic alert.  So, instead of hearing an alarming "Traffic, Traffic!" aural alert and then having to look inside for a depiction where that traffic is, our system will tell you "Traffic, 2 o'clock level, 2 miles".

So, that being said, the IFD540/440 do not provide traffic voice alerts themselves.   If your combined traffic/audio panel provide that, then that is not inhibited by the IFD units.

Hi Tim,

Hi Paul,

I realize that integrating with the MLX is not in your initial design release ... however... Here in Europe it is our only option for inflight weather.

Paul,

I missed this response.  I'll respond on Tuesday, 4 Sep.

Steve

Hi Tim,

We have not announced support for weather radar on the IFD540.   We agree that would be a great feature add but we're going to stay focused on getting the essentials done for this first release.

I wouldn't go that strong.  We can see how weather radar would be a great capability but we have no plans to pursue that anytime soon.