Texas Aerospace Technologies has introduced its TXA201 Tri-Axial Accelerometer.
The TXA201 utilizes next generation micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies to convert gravitational and inertial forces into a DC voltage output for each of the three axis requirements — lateral, longitudinal, and vertical — for flight data recorders and flight data acquisition units, according to company officials.
The new accelerometer is designed as a plug and play solution with a pin for pin connector to make installation easy, company officials added.
Certification is expected in June 2022 with units available to ship very soon after TSO certification.
Reminds me of the “marketing information” written by some of our early day engineers at Hewlett-Packard. The release made perfectly good sense to the author, but everyone else was asking why it mattered.
I agree with Steven Schmidt’s comment. A plug-n-play solution for what? Texas Aerospace Technologies is apparently partnered with Genesys. Does that imply this device could replace my turn coordinator rate-based input to my STEC autopilot and get rid of the last remaining mechanical gyro?. Now that would be fantastic. But just can’t tell anything meaningful from this article (or from the Texas Aerospace website.
Please try a little harder to tie such engineering marvels to why I should care.
Is the next generation of Garmin navigators going to use this accelorometer to increase the integrity of its GPS position? Great; that would be good news. Does this accelerometer mean inertial nav systems may soon be cheap enough to act as backup nav systems in GA aircraft? Terrific news.