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Diamond Aircraft Now Available With ADS-B!

Foreword by John Armstrong, Founder and CEO of LifeStyle Aviation

As more and more of our clients have been calling to ask about their ADS-B upgrade path we’ve been handing out “patience pills” encouraging our G1000 clients to wait to see what other developments come along before the 2020 mandate deadline. We’ve been awaiting new developments we could not talk about. 

We are very pleased to announce the wait is over for our Diamond clients. Your ADS-B upgrade path has arrived and its very exciting. Diamond today announced collaboration with Garmin to roll out the GTX-345 series of ADS-B transponders that offers a feature rich ADS-B In and Out solution for all Diamond aircraft versions. This approach will provide more than just compliance for a good price but include viable dual band traffic and weather display features. The company is making the new transponders and Garmin’s Electronic Stability & Protection System (ESP) standard on all new 2016 DA40 XLT aircraft and the full line of planes. This is a tremendously exciting development for us as we have been hoping for this for several years. The GTX 345 is a new Garmin product that is just being released and as of today is not even in the hands of the avionics shops yet. Stay tuned for availability, installation pricing and further announcements from LifeStyle Aviation soon.  We will be offering our used Diamond Aircraft with this new equipment and helping our clients access this technology upgrade as it becomes available in the field.  

Diamond Aircraft Announces Electronic Stability Protection System and ADS-B In/Out As Standard Equipment For New Production DA40 XLT. Diamond’s Lycoming IO360 powered 2016 DA40XLT is equipped with a long list of standard features and equipment that now also includes GARMIN’s Electronic Stability & Protection System and GARMIN’s new ADS-B In/Out and Mode S GTX-345R Transponder.

“GARMIN’s Electronic Stability and Protection System is an effective active safety feature that helps to avoid loss of control, the leading cause of fatal accidents.“ said Peter Maurer, President and CEO of Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc. (Canada). “It is an effective safety enhancement, consistent with our proactive approach of active safety first and we are pleased that we are now able to offer it as standard equipment on all of our GARMIN GFC700 Automatic Flight Control System equipped aircraft.”

The DA40 series offers a superb balance of performance, comfort, and efficiency to please private pilots, while delivering the reliability, durability, and high resale value, expected by high utilization training operators and leaseback owners. With over 1,800 DA40’s delivered since 2000, a superb safety record and a choice of jet fuel or avgas piston engines, the DA40 presents a versatile, well proven yet technologically advanced 4 seater for private pilots and commercial operators alike.

Diamond Aircraft Announces GARMIN GTX Series Transponders with ADS-B IN/OUT for All Models. Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc. (Canada) will be equipping all newly ordered US registered DA20, DA40, DA42 and DA62 aircraft with standard ADS-B IN /OUT GARMIN 345 series Transponders. All, GARMIN’s STC for installation of the GTX335 and 345 series transponders provides affordable FAA mandate compliant retrofit solutions to all owners of US registered Diamond aircraft, regardless of vintage and equipment and if their airplane is WAAS GPS equipped or not. 

Depending on the installed equipment and software configuration of the existing aircraft, the GTX-345 and GTX-345R (Remote) will display enhanced traffic information and subscription free weather information on the MFD and SVT enabled PFD’s. Additionally, regardless of whether the existing aircraft is equipped with WAAS or not, the GTX345 with GPS will not only met the FAA’s 2020 ADS-B mandate, it will also enable the display of ADS-B traffic, subscription-free weather, GPS position data and back-up attitude information within popular apps such as Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight Mobile via Connext® wireless technology, on suitable mobile devices.