Professional Pilot, May 2017

Avidyne Dir of Mktg Tom Harper demos one of their newest aftermarket avionics suites including the touch screen IFD series with iPad connectivity and full ADS B compliance 68 PROFESSIONAL PILOT May 2017 Associate Member of the Year winning company Appareo builds the popular Stratus wireless receiver and just unveiled a low cost in cockpit dual USB charging port L R Mktg Coord Julie Portillo Territory Mgr Brian Babik Territory Mgr Eric Hensley Av Sales Mgr Zach Peterson and Sales Dir Kris Garberg AEA Chairman David Loso L presents the Associate Member of the Year Award to the Appareo team From L R in blue shirts are Territory Mgr Brian Babik Territory Mgr Eric Hensley Sales Dir Kris Garberg holding plaque and Territory Mgr Geremy Kornreich Latitude Technologies offers flight data mgmt flight tracking and satellite communications Meeting attendees were Dir of Helo GA Sales David Thomas L and Pres Mark Insley Mid Continent Instruments Pres CEO Todd Winter and son Van Winter show the many in cockpit power options they offer along with their dual screen 2 inch Standby Attitude Module SAM Sandel Avionics manufactures several retrofit displays and AHRS systems VP Sales Mktg Steve Fulton allowed customers to test their products on a flight sim Sandia Aerospace will soon have available its STX 360 Sentinel with ADS B In Out top which will accompany the SAI 340 Quattro 4 in 1 standby instrument bottom Explaining the products were Pres Dennis Schmidt L and Production Product Support Mgr Bill Shuert Gogo is one of the leading inflight connectivity companies for commercial business and general aviation L R VP Aftermarket Sales David Salvador PR Comm Dir Dave Mellin VP Mktg Digital Strategy Lisa Peterson Sr VP Biz Av Solutions Andy Geist GlobalParts aero provides a 1 stop location for aviation needs from manufacturing to paint to MRO services in addition to one of the largest inventory of aviation spare parts L R Sales Biz Dvlp Execs Bill Vickers and George Canale stand next to VP COO Malissa Nesmith Involved in just about every aspect of avionics Honeywell is currently upgrading its systems to meet the ADS B requirements and is releasing new satellite connectivity enhancements Here is Dealer Sales Mgr West Region David Groppenbacher Miami based Avionica is a global provider of products and services for manufacturers airlines military forces and more Working the booth were VP Sales Anthony Rios and Dir Global Sales Claudia Espinosa Elliott Aviation takes care of sales mx avionics upgrades interiors and more from their 3 locations at FCM Flying Cloud Minneapolis MN DSM Des Moines Intl IA and MLI Quad City Intl Moline IL At the booth were Aftermarket Avionics Sales Dave Markham L and Avionics Sales Mgr Andrew Camp Astronics Mgrs for Sales Biz Dvlp Grant Sumpter L and Dale Farr demonstrated the newest version of their Max Viz 2300 enhanced vision system Universal Avionics provides complete flightdeck upgrades for a wide variety of turboprops business commercial jets and helicopters At the show were CEO Paul DeHerrera L and Sr Sales Mgr USA Robert Randall Satcom Direct offers a variety of inflight connectivity options Discussing products were L R Sr Acct Mgr OEM Sales Marcus Garrett Dir North America Sales Bill Darbe Acct Mgr Dealer Prgms Jeff Beutel and Regional Sales Dir Marc Hammond