Meggitt/S-TEC is adding the King Air 90 to the growing list of
aircraft that are STC'd for its lightweight LCD flat panel electronic
flight display and digital autopilot system. The $150,000 retrofit,
which includes a pilot and copilot electronic flight instrumentation
system (EFIS), dual ADAHRS and a 2100 DFCS Autopilot, has already
been certified for the Twin Commander 690 and Cessna Conquest
441.
With the King Air 90 addition, the company is halfway through
the game plan it announced last September to certify the package
for six twin-engine turboprops, including the King Air 200, Conquest
425 and Piper Cheyenne II. Meggitt is currently installing the
equipment in the Conquest and the Cheyenne but has not announced
a target date for completion.
The avionics are part of Meggitt's Magic (Meggitt Advanced Generation
Integrated Cockpit) line which features the PFD 500 primary flight
display, ND-500 navigation display, air data/attitude heading
reference system box and DFCS-2100 digital flight control system.
For owners who already have a GPS or an autopilot, Meggitt says
the EFIS interfaces "with most GPS units and autopilot systems."
The 2100 DFCS is a digital attitude-based flight control system
in a stack-mounted case, containing the mode selector/programmer,
annunciator, roll, pitch and yaw computers and servo amplifiers.
The system provides roll, pitch and yaw modes along with integrated
altitude selector and alerter modes, and utilizes the same ADAHRS
sensor as the flight instrumentation system.
Meggitt/S-TEC says it has discontinued its dealer pre-certification
sales program for the King Air 90 unit and other in-progress STCs.
Under the initiative, dealers were guaranteed a production slot
giving them a priority production and shipping position in return
for a refundable down payment of $5,000 when they purchased both
the EFIS and 2100 DFCS.
