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[dynonsupport]

We get a fair amount of inquiries about "what's next for Dynon". This post will be periodically updated and will become the sole source of information about projects and efforts that we're not quite ready to fully announce and give details on.

Thanks for your continued passion and enthusiasm for our company!

Com Radio: It's an open secret that we've got efforts underway to offer something in this space. There is nothing imminent and there is expected timeframe for a product release at this point.

Advanced autopilot: Most of our development resources have been poured into SkyView lately, but we're still planning on offering Advanced AP (vertical nav, IAS hold modes, sequencing, other fancy features) on both SkyView and the D10/D100 series of products.

SkyView: We'll keep marching toward our goal of "completing the panel". Lot more map stuff coming in the shorter term.

Updated 2/13/2010

 

[wwest]

 

[dbuds2]

Looks like this thread hasn't been used for a while.

Any development on a Dynon Nav/Com?

 

[dynonsupport]

Updated with the status of the top few things we're asked about.

 

[JohnWF]

What's Latest on ADS-B System thinking?

I had understood that the engineering folks at Dynon were thinking about an integrated ADS-B system. How is that process coming along? The first product on the market that doesn't cost an exhorbitant amount will be as market leader...them that gets there firstest with the mostest wins, as a Civil War General once sasid.

 

[dynonsupport]

We don't currently have plans to develop our own hardware here, but there are quite a few companies working on cheap ADS-B UAT receivers. Note that SkyView's transponder option has ADS-B OUT, so all we need to complete the ADS-B solution is the IN side, preferably with UAT for weather and traffic (vs just traffic with the 1090-ES option).

 

[Battson]

Would Dynon care to comment on the foreseeable supported product lifespan of the D100 and D120 screens? 

Seems everywhere I look, things are going moving map and into a single unified Skyview type display no matter the company. If a guy who like a straight D100/D120 GUI representation of instruments likely to find himself unsupported in 10-15 years time??

Already it seems that things have moved on, with most of the effort (understandably) being focused around Skyview and compatible products.
I think Skyview products which aren't backwards compatible with the D100 / D120 is a sign things are on the decline?? :-/

I guess I exclude the smaller D10 as it fit's a niche all of it's own, whereas the D100 series are competing with the Skyview for panel space, as it were.

 

[dynonsupport]

SkyView is a flexible system. If you want just an EFIS on a 7" screen, you can get that. You can turn off Synthetic vision if you want. You can also buy a SkyView and run it just as an EMS if you want. So it is an extension of a D100 and a D120, not something that is totally different. You aren't forced into having a map or anything else on SkyView if you don't want it (and we charge extra for the map so you aren't paying).

So the issue is more of a price point than anything else, since SkyView does cost more than a D100 if all you want is an EFIS. Dynon has only been selling products for just under 10 years and the whole experimental EFIS industry is only a year or two older. The D120 is only 7 years old. So there's no way we can tell you what we'll be selling in 10-15 years, or what it will cost.

In terms of "supportable" do you mean how long can we repair one that you already own and it breaks? All we can say there is that we'll do it as long as we can after the product is discontinued, which the D100 and D120 aren't....

 

[airguy]

Dynon - any update on the Dynon comm radio? Is it still in the pipeline or has it been abandoned?

 

[Dynon]

Oh, it's still very much in the pipeline. Expect more info at Sun 'n Fun.