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Garmin Offers Retrofit Package For King Air 200 and B200 Aircraft By Steve Hall |
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May 16, 2011 - Garmin a global leader in satellite
navigation announced a special G1000 retrofit offer
exclusively for owners of EU-registered Beechcraft King
Air 200 and B200 aircraft in conjunction with this
year’s European Business Aviation Convention &
Exposition.
EU King Air owners who place an order for the G1000
integrated flight deck prior to June 30, 2011 will
receive a $15,000 discount on the Platinum package, an
upgrade that includes Synthetic Vision Technology and
Garmin ChartView powered by Jeppesen. “With the recent EASA validation of this installation, we are excited for King Air owners in Europe to explore all of the benefits that come from upgrading their aircraft with this state of the art technology,” said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing. |
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“It breathes new life into the aircraft. And with European
Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) enabled
navigation, situational awareness features like SVT, the
sophisticated autopilot and the overall weight savings, it’s a
tremendous value proposition.”
Garmin received the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA)
validation of the U.S. STC (supplemental type certificate) for
the installation of the G1000 in the King Air 200 and B200 in
December 2010.
Installation of the G1000 system dramatically modernizes the
King Air’s panel and meets current European regulatory
requirements including 8.33 kHz VHF Communication, VHF Com
Immunity from FM radio broadcasts, B-RNAV, P-RNAV, RNP Approach
(to LPV, LNAV/VNAV, and LNAV minimums), RVSM, SSR Mode S
Elementary Surveillance (ELS), SSR Mode S Enhanced Surveillance
(EHS), ADS-B-NRA (Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast in
Non-Radar Areas), and TAWS Class B.
The G1000 avionics suite integrates all primary flight
information, navigation data, communications, terrain awareness,
traffic, weather, and engine instruments on a large 15-inch
multi-function display (MFD) and two 10.4-inch primary flight
displays (PFD).
The G1000 installation on the King Air 200/B200 includes the GFC 700™ three-axis, fully digital, dual channel, fail passive automatic flight control system (AFCS). The GFC 700 includes features you would expect in this class of aircraft such as coupled space based augmentation system (SBAS) approaches such as LNAV/VNAV and LPV. |