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Dynon D10A got an FAA STC

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23-Jan-17 18:47

Jacko wrote:

the EAA’s paperwork for the Dynon D10 and D100 is a kosher FAA STC

Michael wrote:

me thinks it’s a " Halal " FAA STC

Kosher or Halal, they keep referring to it as the “non-certified Dynon PFD” (although living up to industry standards), while the G5 is explicitely certified.

ESMK, Sweden

23-Jan-17 09:51

Interesting article on AvWeb today :

More Experimental PMAs Likely
By Russ Niles

Owners of certified aircraft could soon have affordable access to a wide range of cutting-edge technology now reserved for the amateur built market thanks to an emerging joint effort by EAA and the FAA. FAA officials from Washington, Oklahoma City and Chicago went to Oshkosh last week to discuss ways to expand on the success of a groundbreaking move that granted a supplemental type certificate to EAA that allows those who purchase rights to the STC to install a non-certified Dynon primary flight display in their certified aircraft.

EAA’s VP of Safety and Advocacy Sean Elliot told AVweb in a podcast interview that the FAA, with its new risk-based approach to regulation, is enthusiastic about finding ways to get low-risk non-certified safety- and performance-related equipment on certified aircraft through the Parts Manufacturing Process (PMA). It appears the result will be a “tiered approach” to the PMA process where items that really enhance safety, situational awareness or even performance but can’t interfere with the aircraft’s core systems get an easier and less expensive approval process. “This is really significant,” he said. “It will lower costs. It will bring more safety-enhancing and performance-enhancing products into the cockpit for all general aviation pilots that we in the experimental world have appreciated for some time now.”

Since last year’s announcement at Sun ’n Fun of the Dynon STC on some Cessna models, more than 100 owners have bought the STC and the list of applicable aircraft has been expanded. The next STC application will be a TruTrak two-axis autopilot that Elliot describes as a “known safety enhancement.” The key to the process is presenting items that supplement the required gear on certified aircraft that don’t interfere with those systems if they fail. So, primary instruments and other essential equipment will be left out of the process but that still leaves a wide range of products that have been developed for the experimental world that could benefit the owners of certified planes. He said engine monitors and fuel flow monitors might be the next targets of the program.

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LFPN

23-Jan-17 07:08

Jacko wrote:

I gathered that the EAA’s paperwork for the Dynon D10 and D100 is a kosher FAA STC.

Hmmm, me thinks it’s a " Halal " FAA STC, seeing how " Kosher " would probably have entailed a TSO’d product, ie. stricter .

( Not sure that is a " PC " statement )

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LFPN

22-Jan-17 12:55

@Arne,

I gathered that the EAA’s paperwork for the Dynon D10 and D100 is a kosher FAA STC. In fact, I’m not sure that the FAA approves any other kind of STC.

Glenswinton, SW Scotland, United Kingdom

21-Jan-17 21:13

Jacko wrote:

I’ll wager, what, let me think, a case of Savagnin, or even better, a crate of Irn-Bru that we see a non-TSO HSI or A/P for certified US airplanes before this time next year.

I hope you’re right ‘cause I’ve ordered a G5 for one of my planes and I’d love to complete that with an eHSI on a second G5 and reversion back-up mode if one of the two fails.

That combo with a $5k or $6k price tag (th G5 w AHRS is just $2.1K ) would give Aspen fits.

FAA A&P/IA

LFPN

20-Jan-17 16:39

Michael wrote:

As usual, the problem is certification. Both the Dynon eAI and the Garmin G5 were “rushed” through without having to show TSO conformity under the “new” FAA regulations .

The difference being that the G5 got a proper STC, not just the industry standard compliance of the Dynon.

ESMK, Sweden

20-Jan-17 10:58

While I generally like the LAA and what they do, I really don’t like their propensity for “gold plating” for the night/IMC stuff.

It’s not rocket science and the gold plating isn’t needed. Hundreds of thousands of hours experience flying many of these aircraft IFR in the US, and using these instruments successfully should be plenty of evidence that the gold plating just isn’t needed.

Andreas IOM

20-Jan-17 09:11

Peter wrote:

Curiously, Trutrak pops up here as a non-acceptable item in the UK LAA homebuilt IFR programme.

Yes, but this information is related to their EFIS, not to their autopilot.

Anyway, in the same document, you find that:

When the Dynon D10A is STC by the FAA… Maybe the LAA inspector needs to upgrade his glasses! Or he just needs a bit of training on using the instrument. From my experience, all information are extremely readable.