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WEBSITE: www.sil.org
FACILITIES: Four buildings with nearly 1,600
square meters (5,249 square-feet) of space
for administrative and pilot offices, passenger
areas, cargo, aircraft maintenance and storage.

WHAT THEY DO:
SIL Aviation provides air transportation
and aircraft maintenance services for the
organization's linguists and translators,
other mission groups and local operators.

EMPLOYEES: 25 expatriate staff from five
countries and 19 national staff
FOUNDED: March 1962
AEA MEMBER SINCE: 2002

SIL Aviation often transports food, medicine and supplies to Papua
New Guinea's remote villages.

Lloyd Marsden, a
mechanical and avionics
technician with SIL
Aviation, works in the
cockpit of a Quest Kodiak.
SIL Aviation's hangars sit alongside a dirt runway in the Aiyura Valley.

Keeping Track
In October, Marsden and Daniel Jezowski, an avionics
technician, installed v2track in one of the organization's
Bell 206L3 helicopters. The flight-following system,
created by a New Zealand company of the same name,
tracks GPS position data and reports information via
cellphone or, if out of cell coverage, satellite phone, to the
v2track system.
"Our flight coordinators can follow the aircraft's
progress," Marsden said. "Plus, the system allows for
texting between aircraft and operations. It will also send
out alert messages if an emergency comes up. Those
messages can go to several different cellphones depending
on who is on our notification list. We now have a V2
tracker system installed in one of the Kodiaks and one
in each of the Bell 206L3s. In the near future, we'll be
installing the system in the other three Kodiaks."

Helping to Save Lives
Keeping the aircraft ready to fly and fully operating is often
the difference that saves lives. One such instance happened
in March when SIL Aviation's two technicians scrambled to
finish installing a receptacle used to power a medical stretcher
sled in one of the organization's Quest Kodiaks. Without the
receptacle, the crew would need to load an extra 60 kilograms
(132 pounds) of batteries to power the medical equipment for
the four-hour flight to Cairns, Australia.
"As the inspection progressed, our aircraft coordinator
looked at the upcoming flight schedule and felt an unexpected
need to finish the stage inspection earlier than scheduled,"
Marsden explained. "He asked all of the engineers to stay late
to finish the inspection. We pulled together as a team and were
able to finish the inspection early.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Avionics News December 2013

Point of Communication
AEA Now
The View From Washington
International News and Regulatory Updates
Beltway Briefing
Want to be Found ... and Legal?
Member Profile
Trig Avionics Ltd.
Avionics News Through the Years
EEDirect
A Conversation With...
Member Profile
Avotek Publishes New AET Study Guide
Civil UAV's
Business Basics
AEA Newsmakers at NBAA Convention
What's New
Marketplace Classifieds
Avionics News December 2013 - Intro
Avionics News December 2013 - Cover1
Avionics News December 2013 - Cover2
Avionics News December 2013 - 1
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Avionics News December 2013 - Point of Communication
Avionics News December 2013 - 5
Avionics News December 2013 - AEA Now
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Avionics News December 2013 - The View From Washington
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Avionics News December 2013 - International News and Regulatory Updates
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Avionics News December 2013 - Beltway Briefing
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Avionics News December 2013 - Member Profile
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Avionics News December 2013 - Trig Avionics Ltd.
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Avionics News December 2013 - Avionics News Through the Years
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