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Contrary to industry chatter,
these are certif ied systems!

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route. The process simply had not been done before, so
f you were in Las Vegas in March for the 61st
naturally confusion ensued.
annual AEA International Convention & Trade
Secondly, as quickly as that product was introduced,
Show, you witnessed several new product and services
people
started referring to it as "non-certified." While
announcements in the avionics industry.
the Dynon products were approved via the commercial
One theme that seemed to dominate the show was
parts category of the regulations, the product itself was
the introduction of new, lower-cost certified equipment
certified through the EAA STC. All of the
using a streamlined method of compliance
follow-on parts introduced since the EAA
to bring them to market. This is great news.
STC have all been certified.
What is not great is the continued confusion
At the end of the day, manufacturers are
about how these products came to market.
using a method for certifying products with
After three years of attempting to clarify the
regulations that have been written for years.
certification process of these new products,
THEY ARE STILL CERTIFIED ... but the
people - even the manufacturers themselves
pathway to certification is through PMA and
- are incorrectly labeling these products as
not TSO.
"non-certified." That is simply not true.
Paula Derks
So, despite all the outcry that the FAA
Everyone remembers three years ago
is now allowing non-certified equipment to
when the Experimental Aircraft Association
be installed into certified aircraft, IT IS SIMPLY NOT
introduced a new supplemental type certificate for the
TRUE.
Dynon D10. That one announcement rocked the industry
If you will recall approximately 10 years ago, the
for a few months, and people demanded to know why
retrofit market for legacy CAR 3 aircraft had all but
the EAA was given preferential treatment by the Federal
dried up. At that time, a lot of the avionics installations
Aviation Administration in bringing this non-certified
were portable, iPads and handhelds. These aircraft and
piece of equipment into a certified airplane.
that sector of the market were seriously marginalized. 
Whoa, let's slow down and take a breath. First, the
During those years, the AEA board of directors
EAA was not given preferential treatment; it simply
formalized an ad hoc committee to engage manufacturers
used the currently written regulations to approve the
and shops to examine this paradigm shift. One of the
Dynon product as part of the STC instead of using the
items identified by the committee was the logistical
traditional TSO method. In the STC certification, it used
the new ASTM system validation standard as an alternate
means of compliance instead of going the usual RTCA
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