Tires and Tubes Cont.

Over the past few years we have received reports of tires going flat. The reports are sporatic with seemingly no common theme. I blogged about it back in this June 2010 post. We have been working with Goodyear to try to understand what might be causing this, and have tried some of their new tires.More explanation has come from the FAA via a revision to a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) published today. CE-11-47R1...

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"Orbits" Part 2

In my previous post I described some of the technical hurdles we encountered during the development and certification of the Garmin GSR56 Iridium Transceiver. The story continues with the new Garmin GMA350 audio panel. We had been evaluating some prototypes of this new audio panel and wanted to put it into production, but we also wanted to...

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Child Safety and the NTSB

We are quite honored that Debbie Hersman, the Chairwoman of the NTSB took note of our new LATCH system installation in the 2012 model rear seats by writing about it in her official blog called the NTSB Safety Compass. We pride ourselves, and work very hard to make our airplanes as safe as possible, this new rear seat is just another...

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Perspective Global Connect Retrofit

We have received a lot of inquiries about whether the GSR56 Iridium transceiver will be retrofittable for existing Perspective airplanes and the answer is yes. The engineering team is working on the retrofit kit that would go out to the field. It is not a simple installation as there are structural modifications to the CAPS bulkhead and wiring...

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"Orbits" Parts 1

One of the biggest requests from our European and other foreign customers is the ability to download satellite weather. We here in the US have been blessed with XM weather but that does not extend beyond our boundaries. Orbits was our internal code name for the project that installs the Garmin GSR56 satellite transceiver that uses the Iridium...

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New Features

Last week we announced some new features in the 2012 models. We added an Iridium based satellite transciever which allows our customers outside of the US to download weather to the cockpit and everyone to make phone calls and text messages.We also updated our rear seat. Making it more comfortable, adding a 3rd seat belt for those who have...

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Flap Relay Winter Update

I just realized that it has been 6 months since I last updated everyone on the flap relay redesign progress. Unfortunately things slowed down quite a bit in the fall. We put together a drawing and requirements package and sent that out to several potential manufacturers. We chose a vendor to build some pre-production parts but then further discussions with them led us to choose a different vendor.This latest vendor has...

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SR22T Oil Separator

I mentioned in an October blog post that one of the biggest reliability issues we were having that was specific to the SR22T was with the oil cooler flange cracking. This is due to the existing oil separator being attached to this flange and applying excessive fatigue loads.We had identified this area as a good place for a...

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