Sandel Avionics has selected Stevens Aviation as one of its exclusive Avilon dealerships.
The Sandel Avilon Avionics Suite is an all-glass integrated flight deck for the King Air family, starting with the KA-200, designed and assembled at Sandel for easy installation, according to company officials.
“This changes everything as it gives the customer a fully replaceable, high performance avionics system that meets all 2020 NextGen regulations, installs in as little as five days, and all for a price many more can afford,” said Phil Stearns, sales manager, Stevens Aviation.
Avilon offers a fly-away, fully installed system for an expected $175,000.
All three Stevens Aviation locations, located in Dayton, Ohio (DAY), Nashville, (BNA) and Greenville, S.C. (GYH) are designated authorized Avilon Installation Centers and are set to install this system starting in June.
Far more significant than any of the above information, is the fact that I’ve heard from reliable sources that Avilon apparently also has been designed to finally properly address using RNP capability, and RNP based trajectory operations, far better than any other presently GA available system in the marketplace. RNP is the global navigation baseline standard capability needed for any serious NextGen evolution globally. Other current GA based nav systems from other avionics manufacturers either don’t have RNP trajectory capability at all, or only have very poorly configured RNP capability compared to modern large jet transports, or (unnecessarily) make it a far too expensive an option to practically incorporate in any of the present GA fleet. If Avilon is able to deliver on its advertised projections to date, it could finally become a very significant advance for GA’s role, in facilitating global ATS evolution.