Daher Socata Announces Enhancements To 2016 TBM900 Daher Socata, the manufacturer of the very fast turbo prop, the TBM900, just announced new enhancements for the 2016 model TBM900. More will be divulged in detail at the ongoing Singapore airshow about the specifics relating to the enhancements Daher said. “With the Model Year 2016 TBM 900, we are offering our customers a concentration of innovation, technology and safety improvements that can be compared to bringing an ‘e-copilot’ into the cockpit to reduce the pilot’s workload,” explained Nicolas Chabbert, the Senior Vice President of Daher’s Airplane Business Unit. “Those innovations reflect our policy of constant improvement, which offers TBM customers the latest technology available for the optimized use of their aircraft.”
Some of the new enhancements include: Flight envelope monitoring through the Electronic Stability and Protection (ESP) and the Under-speed Protection (USP) systems, both of which have been added to the autopilot. These electronic monitoring and stability augmentation systems assist the pilot in maintaining the aircraft in a stable flight condition when flight parameters are exceeded. New aural alerts for stall, overspeed, landing gear extension and oxygen mask use. These alerts replace aural sounds for better warning identification. An AOA (Angle of Attack) sensor with visualization on the cockpit’s Primary Flight Display electronic instruments. Two-way wireless link-up to the aircraft’s Garmin G1000 all-glass cockpit avionics suite from a mobile device that runs the Garmin Pilot™ application. This Bluetooth® linkup is via Garmin’s Flight Stream 210 wireless gateway, and enables the syncing of prepared flight plans and streaming of GPS, weather, traffic and other information to/from the avionics system. For more information: SOCATA North America, Inc. North Perry Airport, 7501 South Airport Rd. Pembroke Pines, FL 33023 / USA www.tbm.aero ***
