Avidyne's new IFD 550 Flight Management Sys.

[MikeTuggle]

I posted this in another forum but got no responses. Maybe here, I will get some feedback, since a lot of PA28's and PA32's have Garmin 430/530 paired systems.

For anyone else, like me, considering swapping out their Garmin 430/530 pair with Avidyne "440/540" units to get WAAS and and a greatly improved user interface, I just found out about Avidyne's brand new IFD 550.

It can do synthetic vision functions like their Entegra R9 big sibling. They keep adding a lot of the R9 functions to the IFD boxes. Amazing...
http://www.avidyne.com/products/ifd550/index.html

If you've already done a Garmin===>Avidyne swap, what was your experience?

 

[Orest @ CYFD]

 

[jruhnke]

 

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[arkvet]

 

[Flying_Monkey]

 

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