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Table of Contents:
- Byerly Aviation Receives FAA Diamond Award of Excellence
- Meggitt Panel Approved
- Byerly Completes the First Meggitt MAGIC Twin Commander
- Byerly Completes its' Seventh Renaissance Commander
- University Attracts Record Attendance
BYERLY AVIATION RECEIVES FAA DIAMOND AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
PEORIA, IL - March, 2004 - Byerly Aviation has received the FAA's prestigious Diamond Award of Excellence for 100% participation in the Maintenance Technician Awards Program in 2003. The program is designed to ensure higher levels of training and knowledge for Maintenance Technicians in the field of aviation. Companies supporting the program by funding more training for technicians are honored based on the level of staff participation.
With full staff participation, Byerly Aviation was granted the highest level of the Diamond Award, receiving a plaque from the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C. and a letter from the local FAA office in commemoration of the achievement.
Accepting the award on behalf of Byerly Aviation was Director of Maintenance, Kerry Leifeld. "Byerly recognizes the importance of providing employees with more training and education that they can use to do their jobs better every day," said Leifeld.
Kerry Gambrel, FAA Aviation Safety Inspector for the Flight Standards District Office in Springfield, IL, presented the award to Byerly Aviation. "The Diamond Award is an expression of the FAA's gratitude to aviation companies that spend the time and money to ensure their employees are highly trained," said Gambrel. "This was the first 100% participation award that I have had the honor of presenting in my six years of service with the FAA."
Byerly Aviation specializes in aircraft sales and service, including custom design and installation of avionics equipment. For more information, please contact Paul Boiarsky at 309-697-5500.
(Arlington, WA) March 12, 2002-Following an extensive development and flight testing program, the Meggitt MAGIC® electronic flight and instrumentation system has been certificated in 690-series Twin Commanders. Production units are available for delivery to authorized Twin Commander-Meggitt service centers for installation in customer aircraft.
MAGIC-Meggitt Avionics new Generation Integrated Cockpit-is a suite of four instrument panel displays featuring the latest active matrix liquid-crystal displays and sold-state sensor technology. Standard Twin Commander electromechanical attitude and heading indicators are replaced with a 4.5-inches high by 5.3-inches wide Primary Flight Display (PFD) and an identically sized Navigation Display (ND). In addition, all engine and fuel quantity/fuel flow instruments and gauges are replaced with dual redundant Engine and Instrument Display Systems (EIDS).
The result is a colorful and functional electronic panel that offers greater capability, flexibility, and redundancy compared with electromechanical instrumentation and gauges. The use of electronic displays also saves weight and frees up panel real estate for other advanced avionics such as large-screen flight management displays and weather, traffic, and terrain avoidance systems.
MAGIC will be standard on Grand Renaissance Twin Commanders, and available for retrofit in other Twin Commander 690-series models. FAA approval on Twin Commanders marks the first application of the Meggitt MAGIC system in multi-engine aircraft. Meggitt MAGIC is standard equipment on Piper Aircraft's new turboprop single, the Meridian.
The Twin Commander Meggitt PFD shows all airspeed, attitude, altitude, vertical speed and heading references, and incorporates the flight director function. The ND can be switched between three display modes-arc, map and HSI.
The ND interfaces with the aircraft's existing avionics including autopilot, GPS, VOR/ILS, transponder, radar altimeter, marker beacon, ADF, and DME. Both the PFD and ND receive digital air data information from an all solid-state Air Data Heading and Attitude Reference System (ADHARS).
The two redundant EIDS show all engine indications previously spread among several mechanical instruments, as well as fuel quantity and fuel flow. They also incorporate exceedance monitoring and recording functions. Signals from engine and fuel sensors feed dual independent-channel data acquisition units, which send digital information to the displays. Further redundancy is achieved by the ability to combine all engine indications onto one display.
Byerly Completes the First
Twin Commander MAGIC InstallationByerly Aviation, a leading factory authorized Twin Commander Aircraft Corporation service center has recently completed the first installation of the Meggit MAGIC suite of flat panel displays into its latest Grand Renaissance aircraft.
Along with Twin Commander Aircraft Corporation and Meggit Avionics, Byerly has pioneered this sophisticated system of cockpit displays. This system undoubtedly will make PIC work safer, simpler, and more reliable.
The four Meggitt MAGIC electronic displays are the stars in the cockpit, but the panel also features a host of optional advanced avionics centering on the Avidyne Flightmax 850 Flight Situation Display. The big Avidyne color screen incorporates the Bendix digital color radar presentation, BFG Stormscope WX-500 lightning data, Ryan International 9900BX traffic alerts, and a color moving map. An IFR-certified Garmin 430 rounds out the extensive flight management system installation on the Byerly Grand Renaissance.
Byerly Aviation Completes its'
Seventh Renaissance CommanderAs Grand as it Gets. Byerly Aviation's seventh Renaissance Commander stands out as the finest Grand Renaissance Commander in the world.
Known around the world for attention to detail and an uncompromised commitment to quality at all costs, this Renaissance has all the hallmarks of Byerly workmanship. Georgeous interior design and materials, an impeccable paint job, along with all the detail in workmanship required to earn the Renaissance factory approved nameplate, this bird has one more very big quality. The MAGIC suite of flat panel displays.
Contact Paul Boiarsky to get all the information on this grandest of Grand Renaissance aircraft or to schedule a demonstration.
University Attracts Record Attendance
If there was any question that Twin Commander owners are among the most enthusiastic and committed in all of aviation, it was convincingly answered at the just-completed sixth Twin Commander University.
The University, which took place March 27-29 at the La Posada Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, drew a record attendance of just under 200 including owners of turbine and piston-powered Twin Commanders, and representatives from authorized service centers and product and service suppliers.
Nearly three dozen Twin Commanders flew into Scottsdale airport for the University. Executive Aircraft Maintenance, an authorized Twin Commander service center, was the airport host for the event.
University participants enjoyed a strong program of seminars, product and service exhibits, and social events.
The three-day symposium began Thursday morning with the Twin Commander Club Benders Scramble golf outing at the Resort Course at Camelback Inn. That afternoon, several dozen University attendees toured the Honeywell TPE331 repair facility near Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.
A welcome reception was held Thursday evening along La Posada's shimmering one-million-gallon swimming pool. Weather in the Scottsdale area was ideal throughout the University — sunny and warm during the day, and clear and refreshingly cool at night.
The seminars began early Friday morning with a general session on engineering and regulatory initiatives being pursued by Twin Commander Aircraft. Following that, attendees could chose to learn about Meggitt Avionics' twenty-first century cockpit for Twin Commanders, or bone up on GPS approach procedures as taught by FlightSafety International instructors.
One of the most important sessions concerned aircraft insurance. Hal Williams, board chairman of NationAir Insurance Agencies, served as moderator for a panel of underwriters from Global Aerospace, AIG Aviation, USAIG, and W. Brown & Associates.
Panelists agreed that owners who train at FlightSafety International and have their aircraft maintained at authorized service centers represent good insurance risks. They also were unanimous in endorsing University attendance as evidence of an owner's commitment to continuing education.
Panelists urged aircraft owners to work with a knowledgeable broker, who should ensure that an application for insurance conveys all pertinent information about the pilot and aircraft to help the underwriter make an informed decision.Turbine and piston owners attended separate sessions devoted to insights on operating and troubleshooting aircraft systems. Both groups then met with Twin Commander Aircraft executives and staff to exchange views on a variety of issues.
Other sessions taught by FlightSafety instructors covered Temporary Flight Restrictions, flying in icing conditions, rules of thumb for high-altitude flying, and using airborne weather radar.
Aviation tax expert Lou Meiners of Advocate Aircraft dissected recent tax rulings of interest to owners. Honeywell Avionics representative Ed Bannen reviewed the Honeywell Integrated Hazard Awareness System, and the company's new weather datalink service. Ed Stanley from Hartzell Propeller discussed propeller care.
Honeywell engine expert Helmuth Eggeling anchored the concluding sessions of the University with three hours of revealing insights about proper operation of the TPE331 turboprop.
Aviation humorist Rod Machado capped an elegant banquet on Friday night with a 45-minute presentation that had everyone doubled over in laughter.
The University was preceded by a day-long meeting of authorized service centers. Representatives from the service centers discussed plans to send their top inspectors to participate in a special 150-hour inspection standardization clinic using a 690A/B. The standardization clinic is intended to achieve more uniform inspection procedures across the service center network. A recording of the clinic will be used to train other inspectors and maintenance technicians.
Plans already are being made for the seventh Twin Commander University, scheduled for the spring of 2005.
