Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.
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F li g h t lin e Dynon Announces SkyView Version 5.0, Featuring ADS-B Weather, Traffic, and TFRs Dynon Avionics has released Version 5.0 software for the SkyView Integrated Glass Panel system, making good on its Oshkosh promise to deliver ADS-B-based traffic and weather for SkyView this fall. Version 5.0 is a free upgrade for all existing SkyView owners. When coupled with the recently released SV-ADSB-470 UAT Band Traffic and Weather Receiver ($995), SkyView Version 5.0 allows U.S. customers to receive ADS-B-based weather. All information displayed is free, with no monthly subscriptions, based on the FAA's ADS-B broadcast in the United States. Weather is displayed graphically and textually on SkyView, and includes NEXRAD radar, METARs, and TAFs. Weather graphics are clear and easy to understand, even with terrain displayed, thanks to SkyView smart map layering system. Additionally, when paired with the ADS-B "Out" capable SV-XPNDR-26X Mode-S Transponder, an SV-ADSB470-equipped SkyView system receives a full traffic portrait from the FAA ADS-B system. This portrait is tailor-made for the SkyView-equipped aircraft and includes all ADS-B and radar targets that the FAA can detect. In contrast, other portable/receive-only ADS-B solutions only receive "partial" traffic when another ADS-B"Out" equipped aircraft happens to be nearby, drastically reducing their traffic-sensing capabilities. Other major feature additions to SkyView Version 5.0 include: automatic ALT/GND mode for the SV-XPNDR-26X, single display reversionary mode for multidisplay systems, a new screen swap button, which swaps entire contents of the displays, and improvements to airspace depictions. For a full list of all the additions, please see the SkyView User Manual available from the Dynon website at www.DynonAvionics. com/docs/support_documentation.html. Customers can download SkyView Version 5.0 for free from www.DynonAvionics.com/docs/support_software_SkyView.html. For more information about Dynon products, please contact Dynon at 425-402-0433 or info@DynonAvionics.com. Flight Design Celebrates 25 Years Flight Design GmbH has been designing and manufacturing aircraft for 25 years. To mark this milestone, the company is offering a special "Jubilee" series of its models with unique features and value pricing. "It has been an exciting 25 years where we brought interesting new airplanes to markets around the world," said Flight Design CEO Matthias Betsch. "For this anniversary we have a special model created expressly for our worldwide dealership partners and their customers." Flight Design will build the special Jubilee edition in a limited series of 25 airplanes. The specially constructed airplanes offer a personal touch, a unique equipment list, and special pricing. The Jubilee treatment can be applied to any of several models in production, including CTLSi, CTSLi (Supralight), or MCi. To ensure quality and desirability, only 25 Jubilee airplane models will be manufactured. Standard features will 10 Vol.2 N o.1 / January 2013 include: Rotax 912iS engine; Dynon SkyView avionics, dual 10-inch displays (for LSA/EASA 1,320-pound/600-kilogram CTLSi and MCi) or dual 7-inch displays for CTLSi at 1,040 pounds/472.5 kilograms, or single 10-inch display for CTSLi; Dynon autopilot; 8.33-kilohertz communications radio with Mode S transponder; Garmin 796/795 GPS; electric stabilator trim; two upgraded Bose A20 Active Noise Reduction (ANR) headsets; input capability for mobile phone and music; special two-tone leather interior, including leather instrument panel and carpeting similar to the interior in Flight Design's new four-seat C4 mock-up as seen at air shows; and a special 25th anniversary theme exterior design painted on aircraft (not decals) with 25th anniversary commemorative logo. The program is available effective immediately until the 25th Jubilee airplane is built with delivery occurring from February to June 2013 at the rate of five airplanes per month. For more information, visit www.FlightDesign.de.