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Flight Display
Systems’
JetJukebox has a
simple interface
for users to choose
movies, photos or
music.

FreeFlight’s FDL-1090 TX

Flight Display Systems
Flight Display Systems manufactures more than 120 unique
in-flight entertainment products for the retrofit and refurbishment
market. The Georgia-based company also offers ruggedized
LCD panels used in military surveillance and reconnaissance
aircraft, including NVG-compliant and touchscreen monitors.
Jay Healey, vice president of sales, highlighted his company’s
latest products for attendees at the AEA Convention, including entries in the Wi-Fi, media-server and touchscreen in-flight
entertainment management markets.
The company’s new FDWRTR-2 stand-alone wireless router
is being STC’d in a variety of aircraft, Healy told attendees.
Designed primarily as a means to distribute in-flight entertainment content, the router does not require Internet access and
works with all Wi-Fi-capable tablets and phones.
The router complements, which can store up to 100 movies.
It includes its own internal server memory and features six USB
ports. The media player allows up to eight devices to log on
simultaneously and view the content of their choice. It features
a touchscreen-enabled menu system available from virtually
any iPad, iPhone or Android device, plus a worldwide moving
map and data base.
The company also announced a ground-side solution for
managing iPad and other portable devices, the 10X PED,
which it said “is a cost-effective ground solution for operators
who want to manage multiple iPads.” The new device charges
and syncs up to 10 iPads at once in secure storage. And after
the iPads are synched, all fresh content can be played back on
the new Flight Display Systems FD171DMT, a 17-inch widescreen HD display, which is designed for bulkhead mounting
aboard Hawker, Citation, KingAir and Learjet aircraft.
To learn more, visit www.flightdisplay.com.

FreeFlight Systems
“Solutions to complex problems” is how FreeFlight Systems’
Pete Ring, aftermarket sales manager, characterized his
company’s new products. But during his presentation to the
AEA Convention, he also announced FreeFlight Systems is
committing to its continuing support for the Capstone Data
Interface Protocol, an industry standard defining technical requirements for an RS-422/RS-232 data connection

between cockpit displays and ADS-B datalink radios utilizing
ADS-R and TIS-B traffic data, as well as FIS-B datalink weather, NOTAM and other information from an ADS-B In datalink
radio. Implementing Capstone at the airframe level provides
owner flexibility when configuring ADS-B avionics, the company
said, noting Aspen Avionics, Avidyne and other industry leaders
also have announced support for Capstone.
Ring introduced FreeFlight’s FDL-1090 TX, the company’s
1090ES ADS-B Out solution for aircraft operating at flight
level180 and above. The new radio is part of a modular system that can be expanded with the TSO-approved RANGR
FDL-978 RX to show ADS-B weather and traffic on compatible
displays, is lightweight and certified to TSO C88b and TSO
C145 standards. Its list price includes a FreeFlight Systems
1201 WAAS/GPS receiver as the ADS-B compliant navigation
source.
The FTG-410 tone generator is another new product from
FreeFlight, which is designed to work with the company’s existing RA-4000 and RA-4500 radar altimeter systems, plus those
from other manufacturers. It provides audio alerts to pilots when
operating at low altitude or at night, and when over water or
rough terrain lacking visual cues.
The company also introduced the FT-9000 ADS-B Ramp
Tester, which Ring labeled a portable, comprehensive data
verification system for ADS-B Universal Access Transceiver
and interfaced avionics installations. It’s a rechargeable batterypowered unit, which connects to an aircraft’s 978 MHz broadcast link to obtain ADS-B Out data from the UAT and interfaced
avionics. It also transmits low-power test signals to verify the
aircraft’s ADS-B In datalink reception. The FT-9000 connects
via Wi-Fi to a PC running the supplied diagnostic software,
allowing UAT data, GPS position and velocity, air/ground indication, diversity mode, design assurance level and other key
parameters to be quickly captured and analyzed for reporting.
To learn more, visit www.freeflightsystems.com.

Garmin International
Garmin International announced the GTS 825 Traffic
Advisory System (TAS) and the GTS 855 Traffic Alert and
Collision Avoidance System (TCAS I), which it said offer 40 and
80 nautical miles of interrogation range, respectively, and combine active and passive surveillance data to pinpoint specific
traffic threats. The two new products are the latest additions to
the company’s four-member GTS series, which all come with
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