If your love life of both iPads and plane is n’t quenched by Flight Control HD alone , take annotation : Aspen Avionicshas announced a young product calledConnected Panel , which wirelessly connects an iPad to an aircraft ’s avionics — the electronic systems that includes flight navigation , communication theory , monitoring , management , and more . With the troupe ’s technology , pilots will be capable to deal standard piloting action mechanism like tracking flight plans or tuning into different radio frequency , directly from the iPad .
iPad - fascinate pilots have already begin using Apple ’s lozenge for flight planning , flight of steps logging , andreading related documents and chart . They have not , however , been able to mix this entropy directly into aircraft control organization . Connected Panel changes that with raw hardware , Aspen Avionics ’s CG100 boxwood . After the box is installed behind the airplane ’s panel , it reserve the iPad to connect via Wi - Fi or Bluetooth . The CG100 box seat also sports a USB port and wink memory storage . Once the iPad successfully connects with the box , pilots can start using the tablet to check the plane ’s onboard organisation .
Aspen Avionics ’s first Connected Panel product , Connected Pilot , will include the CG100 and the Aircraft Manager iPad app from AvConnect . Connected Pilot will be released by the end of the yr and list for under $ 2500 , which is a little price compared to current pick . “ Until now , pilot film have had to bribe dedicated aviation handheld devices that proffer basically the same functionality for thousands of dollar sign . Now , with an iPad , some full-bodied air travel program , and Connected Panel , those pilot light can have an even better hand-held machine for a fraction of the price , ” says Aspen Avionics Vice President of Marketing Brad Hayden .
The Aircraft Manager app is the first of Connected Panel Enabled apps ; it downloads flight hours and aircraft performance data , which can then be sent to fleet or service managers . And Aspen Avionics says that it has already partner with a phone number of air travel company that design to release Connected Panel enable applications of their own . The company also say it welcomes third - political party apps , which it hopes will top to further innovation with the Connected Panel engineering .
“ The exciting part is that we can only hazard as to what developer and pilot program will come up with … We are make an capable environment , an ecosystem if you will , and render it to the air travel development community of interests to see what they will do with it , ” Hayden adds .
Connected Panel is currently being marketed for world-wide aviation aircrafts — single- or duplicate - locomotive engine propeller planes and helicopters — though the ship’s company allege the engineering could ferment its path into big , commercial airplanes .
