GARMIN 1000 COMMANDER FLIES WITH NEW FEATURES
Eagle Creek Aviation Services, a factory-authorized Twin Commander Service Center, has begun flight-testing a Garmin 1000-equipped Twin Commander with Garmin’s latest software release. Eagle Creek is seeking supplemental type certificate (STC) approval to upgrade turboprop Twin Commanders with the Garmin 1000 panel and the S-Tec 2100 Digital Flight Control System. The STC also will include Garmin’s new GRA-5500 Radar Altimeter, GTS-850 Traffic system, GWX-70 Weather Radar, and an emergency standby instrument. The prototype installation is on a refurbished Commander 1000 owned by Eagle Creek. The Garmin 1000 Commander was first shown at the NBAA Annual Meeting and Convention last October in Orlando. It will be on display at the Twin Commander University April 25-27 at the Scottsdale, Arizona, Airport, and at…
From the Flightline
SERVICE CENTER PROFILE – EXECUTIVE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE GROWS IN TANDEM
Rob Louviaux has stats. Such as: 137 different Twin Commanders have passed through Executive Aircraft Maintenance (EAM) since Louviaux, a 22-year-veteran of Twin Commander maintenance, went to work there nine years ago as Aircraft Maintenance Manager. And another: EAM counts…
CRM HELPS FREE A STUCK LANDING GEAR
August 14 started out as a great day for an easy flight from Teterboro, New Jersey (KTEB), to Lewiston, Maine (KLEW), in our Commander 840. Ten days earlier we had replaced the tires on the main landing gear at Northeast…
