Avidyne Atlas

Description

Avidyne Atlas, the next-generation in flight management systems, incorporates significant technology advancements over anything else currently available. Avidyne Atlas features easy-to-use flight planning, one-touch departure, airway, & arrival navigation, & Avidyne’s patented GeoFill™ waypoint nomination. The system also features a full QWERTY-style keyboard along with touch-screen hybrid touch user interface that provides easy map panning & rubber-b& flight plan editing. Its extensive I/O is designed to integrate with existing equipment in the aircraft including a long list of EFIS, PFDs, CDIs, HSIs, remote sensors, & autopilots, & it is also an approved ADS-B GPS position source with numerous transponders. Avidyne’s GPS Legacy Avionics Support (GLAS™) provides a direct interface to legacy Collins Proline 21 & Honeywell Primus EFIS systems for vertical guidance during approach operations. This unique integration capability enables EFISs certified before the availability of LPV approaches to have coupled approach guidance on these & other SBAS approaches.

Avidyne Atlas’ innovative implementation of Jeppesen’s chart services displays electronic terminal & approach charts & airport diagrams & includes a geo-referenced overlay of ownship present position & current flight plan. With one-button access to the worldwide library of Jeppessen ® electronic charts & airport diagrams, Avidyne Atlas dramatically reduces the pilot workload & enhances situational awareness. Charts databases are quickly & can be easily updated via the USB port on the Atlas bezel using virtually any standard USB memory stick.

Entering & editing Flight Plans has never been easier than with the Avidyne Atlas. It features easy-to-use flight planning with ‘one-touch’ victor airway & jet-route navigation, Avidyne’s exclusive GeoFill™ waypoint nomination, & full autopilot integration. Easy clearance-language flight plan entry, including SIDS & STARS, Procedure Previews, one-touch Holds, & rubberband flight plan editing, reduce workload & heads-down time. Avidyne Atlas can store up to 99 flight plans of 128 waypoints each for quick access, & up to 1,0000 LAT/LON & Rho/Theta-defined User Waypoints. Its cross-fill capability seamlessly automates the process of synchronizing flight plans in dual FMS installations.

The Avidyne Atlas provides an optional integrated VHF communication & navigation radio in the same small enclosure. VHF communication capability provides a powerful 16-watt transceiver with frequency nomination & station identification. It also includes the ability to monitor the standby channel at the same time as the active channel.

The integrated VHF navigation system provides VOR navigation, as well as localizer & glide slope approach capability, which is fully integrated & automated with the FMS. It automatically decodes the identification of VORs & localizers, & insures that the proper frequency is tuned as part of the automated approach process.

All Avidyne Atlas systems include integrated WiFi & Bluetooth®connectivity. Numerous tablet application developers support the Avidyne Atlas wireless protocol. Foreflight® & many other apps are capable of receiving GPS position, ADS-B weather & traffic, XM Weather, & other data from the Atlas system. Integrated wireless
connectivity allows pilots to transfer flight plans from tablet Apps including ForeFlight. Imagine being able to plan a flight, file a flight plan, get a clearance, & transfer the flight plan to your FMS, seamlessly. & all Atlas systems have a built-in USB charger so you can insure your devices have adequate battery levels.