A True Glass Panel Display for GA's Most Popular Hullo! It is, undoubtedly, the world's most popular civil-piston helicopter ... But the R44 has never contributed anything that seems all the rage these days ... and for a number of reasons. Yup, the R44 will be robbed of a glass cockpit. For the moment, Heli-Boss Frank Robinson is sticking with steam gauges ... a forward-looking helo pilot leaves with only one way to get to the panel their dreams ... . Retrofit Enter Sagem Avionics, a majorinternational avionics behemoth ... and recent unveiling of a $ 65K glass panel retrofit package that not only fits well into the conventional R44 cockpit - but shaves some 10 pounds off in the process. The Sagem-panel is an impressive creative ... sporting an 8 "Primary Flight Display PFD an 8" Multifunction display MFD, Engine Monitor Module EMM Attitude Heading Reference Systems (AHRS), Tach Gen. interface unit TGI, Temperature Senor Interface Unit tsiu, Air Data Controller and aOAT Sensor. The installed 40 hours installing all the results in a new panel-socket unit and can, no matter which flavor you are in the machine, you had an upgrade. The entire glass panel / pedestal system is by shutting down the old by the last hinge and replaced with the updated console. The SAGEM Integrated Cockpit Display System (ICDs) uses two large screen 8 "LCD displays in portrait mode, one for Primary Flight Display (PFD) and a multi-How to ...
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