NEWS
GULF COAST AVIONICS COMPLETES IFR-APPROVED, GARMIN G500 GLASS PANEL UPGRADE ON A PILATUS PC-7 TURBOPROP
Rick Garcia, president and CEO, Gulf Coast Avionics Corporation announces that the company has recently completed a full-panel upgrade on a former Austrian Air Force Pilatus PC-7 for Legacy Warbirds. “This was a really fun and exciting project for our engineers and installers,” Garcia says. “After spending the majority of their time working on installations the array of typical business and general aviation aircraft, it’s nice to get a truly high- performance turboprop like the PC-7 in our shop.” “When we started spec’ing out the avionics upgrade, the
owner’s main objective was to have as much commonality between the PC-7 and his TBM as he possibly could,” explains Alexander (AJ) Silva, managing member, Legacy Warbirds. “He wanted optimum system familiarity for an easy transition between the two aircraft.” Silva says that Legacy’s design team specifi ed all of the
avionics required and did the preliminary panel design. They also installed the Garmin GTN 750 touchscreen at their West Coast reassembly location before fl ying the PC-7 to Gulf Coast Avionics’ facility in Lakeland, FL. “To our knowledge, this is the fi rst installation of the GTN 750 and a G500 in a PC-7,” Andy Smith, GCA’s Installation Sales manager states. “The equipment is all part
of Garmin’s AML STC, which helped, but this installation still had its share of challenges for our team.” Smith explains that one of the biggest challenges was their
engineers did not have a full set of PC-7 drawings to work with so they had to create all of the interfaces for the new equipment and the legacy units that remained in the aircraft. “Since the airplane was built in Switzerland, nothing
was in English so it took a lot of extra time to translate,” Smith says. “And it’s a pretty small airplane in the cockpit. Running wires and fi nding ways to mount the equipment was a challenge. But, the result is pretty cool.” Smith explains that the PC-7’s IFR-approved panel now
features: • Garmin GTN 750 Touchscreen GPS/NAV/COMM/ MFD
• Garmin G500 glass PFD/MFD display • Garmin GDL-88 ADS-B transceiver • Dual Garmin GNC 225 NAV/COMMs • Garmin GTR 225 COMM only transceiver • Garmin GMA 35 audio panel • L3 Trilogy Electronic Standby Instrument • Avidyne TAS 620 Traffi c Advisory System
While everyone at Gulf Coast was very happy with the
fi nal panel, none more than the company’s chief inspector, Sarah Smith.
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