AveoDigitalFlightDeck Thanks Guys!
Hey guys! Thanks for the opportunity and the invite to join your group and give you some updates on the AveoDigitalFlightDeck products. My Twin Brian, AveoUSAB1 and I are the distributors for North America, Mexico and the Carri bean. So we will provide products and support to that group. First of all We are as excited as everyone is with the introduction of our products at the recent, Airventure 2007 Oshkosh fly in. Since we have built 3 homebuilt aircraft ourselves we are no stranger to what it takes to get the job done. Like you we have been searching for years to be able to find products that are simple to use and easy to maintain, but are state of the art.
To give all of you some background as to who we are and what we are about. Strojkov (AVEO)Engineering is headquartered in Kosice, eastern Slovakia, at the base of the beautiful Tatra mountains. Our modern and newly-equipped Kosice engineering offices comprise contract design and development engineering along with commercial operations. Our daughter company, MetalProdukt s.r.o. (Strojkov ownership) is a large metal fabrication and machining facility located in Gelnica, about 40 kilometers northwest of Kosice. All of the company information can be found by going to our website aveousa.com or aveoengineering.com.
Brian and I are headed to Prague, on August 22nd thru the 30th, with a scheduled flight to the factory aboard Christian's Cessna 402. We will see the DFD and AveoAircraft at the 144,000 sq ft. factory. We plan on getting as many photos, as we are allowed to take to show everyone just what they are getting and the kind of operation that he has there.
The biggest question is when will be have available product to get to you. We are expecting to have deliverable product around the first part of September 2007. We will update you if there is any change as soon as we receive these numbers. We want to be able to support you by giving you good information right away. However, this product is brand new and we are working to ramp up production as quickly as possible to meet the demand.
For those of you that do not know about the product, very quickly we have the only Back lit, trans-flective, Led, touch screen on the market. What this means is that the more the sun hits the display the brighter the screen gets. So none of the viewing problems that we have seen from any of the other displays on the market. The screens are made for us with one addition, our resolution is 640 x 480. All of the DFD products are pilot configurable with the software that we provide you. This means that you can change any display icon's location to exactly where and how you want to see it. We will have this software available within this next month for you to be able to play with, even before you buy anything. As soon as it is ready, we will post the link here for you nice folks.
The units only require 500 milliamp' s per display, are only 2 inches deep and are all plug and play. All of the AHRS, RF radio Secitons and receivers for the AveoPilot, Navagator, Skyway (GPS) TraffiCom, Transcom are provided with the unit, nothing else to buy. Except the connect module which you will need for the Displays to talk to each other should you choose to use multiple displays.
We have combination units for those with limited panel space, (pricing to be on the website shortly) but you can also mix and match the 5.7 and 3.7 inch displays to give you the information that you want in your ship. Gone are the days of Analog Gauges for back up. Any display can act as a back up for any other in case of an Emergency. We also have The AveoUPS, that will provide an additional 4 hours of back up in case of an alternator or generator failure. Believe us when we say that your bladder will run out of space before the instruments need to power down.
Installation will be easy, with just a cutout and four screws. The Bezels and display will be splash proof, should you be flying with coke in hand during turbulence.
All of our sensors, i.e. load cells for the GLT, and Thermocouples, etc, are going through stress tests and should be available in about 3 weeks, However, you can use anyones as we will interface with any digital or analog signal input device.
The AveoDigitalFlightDeck in it's current form will become the Magnum Certified version sometime in the last quarter of this year. This will pump the price a little, However we will still be more than competitive with anyone, We will also be giving you 3D with the Magnum line. The DFD Aveo and UL lines will continue to be 2D, In additon, to the 5.7" display we will also have the 10.4" display with the Magnum. The Magnum line will allow you to fly Legal IFR in both your Experimental as well as the TSO for your Cessna or other production aircraft, by having your local A & P avionics guy fill out the proper 337 forms.
We will have a HUDS display and AutoPilot out within the next four months, along with our own servo actuators.
We are five years ahead of anyone else with this product, because it is PILOT INTUITIVE. You will need no manuals, as every thing is touch screen and easy to figure out without them (Hey us guys hate manuals anyway) We will provide manuals of-course, but Brian and I both have never seen any and we could fly the DFD without them. One Touch and easy to fly.
Our next show will be the A.O.P.A. Show in Hartford Connecticut on October 4th thru the 7th. and we will be at the Copper state Southwest Regional fly in at the end of October in Phoenix area.
We hope this gives you some good information and insights into the product. We will be checking this site everyday to answer any additional questions that you may have. Please, e-mail or call us at 7022564600, we are in Vegas. Thanks for allowing us to ramble here. Respectfully Bruce and Brian Banks (AveoUSAB2 , AveoUSAB1)
