AT300 Hazard Awareness Display
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AT300 Hazard Awareness Display
Designed as a drop-in replacement for a standard three-inch VSI, the AT300 offers advanced multifunction display technology in an affordable and easily installed package. In addition to displaying aircraft vertical speed and providing a supplemental display of GPS route and navigation data, the AT300 uses its internal high-resolution terrain and obstacle database to show the relative elevation of the surrounding topology in shades of green, yellow, and red. Compatible with virtually all panel-mounted GPS systems, the AT300 complements any modern instrument panel and gives older GPS equipment a new lease on life.
High-Resolution Color Moving Map Multifunction Display (MFD)
Compatible with virtually all panel mounted GPS navigation systems, the AT300 provides an easy upgrade to add color moving-map technology to older GPS systems. The unit's high-resolution, sunlight-readable color LCD presents a large moving-map display that shows top-view and side-view terrain presentations, a full-time vertical speed display, a full-time height-above-ground display, a GPS moving-map display, and next waypoint textual navigation data.
The AT300 provides an intuitive display of surrounding terrain and obstacles by showing terrain topography and manmade obstacles in shades of red, yellow, and green. Instantaneous height above ground is also displayed whenever the aircraft is below 20,000 feet AGL.
The size and quality of the AT300 moving-map area is equal to or better than most panel mount GPS navigators.
Vertical Speed Display
The Vertical Speed Indicator on the left edge of the AT300 display provides a graphical indication of aircraft vertical speeds up to 2000 feet per minute (fpm). A digital indicator supplements the graphical VSI display, providing a digital readout of vertical speeds up to a maximum value of 9900 fpm.
Navigational Situational Awareness
The AT300 puts a supplemental display of the active GPS course line, fly-to waypoint, next leg, groundspeed, distance, bearing, and time to waypoint in your primary field of view. This capability provides instant situational awareness of potential hazards along the active and next navigation legs and enhances pilot en route navigational situation awareness. Pilot-selectable zoom scales of 5nm, 10nm, 20nm, 40nm, 60nm, 80nm and 100nm let you see the big picture of what lies ahead, as well as the close-in details of nearby hazards.
Advanced Technology, Advanced Capability
The AT300 Hazard Awareness Display offers advanced digital signal processing, surface-mount electronics, and high-reliability LED backlights in an innovative, affordable, and compact design. Using an internal static pressure sensor, the AT300 directly measures barometric altitude and vertical speed. From this information, sophisticated software algorithms analyze the aircraft altitude and position to render a detailed terrain and obstacle map.
Making extensive use of the same aerospace-grade components found in far more expensive systems, the AT300 features application-specific embedded software in a custom-designed electronic package, allowing it to deliver the functionality and reliability expected of real avionics.
Use of advanced technology allows the AT300 to adopt the compact three-inch instrument format. This makes it easy to install and also makes it easy to incorporate moving-map navigation and terrain awareness information into your primary instrument scan, even under the most demanding of IFR conditions. The AT300 offers almost all of the benefits of a modern electronic HSI display, without the associated costs or complexity.
Ease of Installation
Installation of the AT300 is simple. Even if you have no free instrument holes or empty room in your panel, you can still install the AT300. The unit uses the same mechanical mounting as a standard 3-inch VSI and includes VSI functionality, allowing it to easily replace that instrument. Simply mount the AT300 into the existing VSI instrument panel cutout and provide electrical power, GPS serial data, and static pressure from the VSI pneumatic connection, and the installation is complete.
