Symphony Aircraft and Avidyne

Avidyne's TAS Available on Diamond and Symphony Aircraft - Others Too

Diamond Aircraft and Symphony Aircraft Industries have selected Avidyne's active-surveillance traffic advisory systems (TAS) as factory options. The system is now available for retrofit on several other aircraft models as well.

Avidyne's TAS600 will be available for Diamond's DA20, DA40 and DA42 models, and the Symphony 160. It uses Ryan Active Surveillance technology, typically associated with TCAS (traffic alert and collision avoidance system), that detects in-range target transponders with top-and-bottom antennas, no matter where the aircraft is operating. Targets are displayed with standard TCAS symbology and its automated voice alert uses typical ATC controller terminology to call out traffic in terms of o'clock position, high or low, and distance in miles.

The system can be used with all Diamond factory-installed multi-function displays including the Honeywell KLN 94 moving-map GPS, the Garmin GNS430 and GNS530, and the Garmin G1000. On the Symphony 160, traffic information can be displayed on Avidyne's EX5000 multi-function display and on its GPS NavComm displays.