Alliant Product Features
Redundancy and Reliability
Fully-integrated, dual-independent ADAHRS systems are selectable for each EXP5000 and each ADAHRS can drive both EXP5000s. On-screen annunciations show cross-side ADAHRS selection. Advanced system monitors and Avidyne’s exclusive Cross-Compare System™ (CCS) provide visual alerts in the unlikely event of a data discrepancy, providing unsurpassed redundancy and increased safety of flight. There’s even a ‘Pilot Priority’ switch that allows the pilot to ‘lock out’ the co-pilot PFD controls, for peace of mind when a non-pilot is in the right seat.
MultiLink-enabled MultiFunction Display
With Alliant, you have the choice of the 10.4” EX500 or the 5.4” EX500 MultiFunction Display. The EX500/EX5000 MFDs feature high-resolution moving maps that can show flight plan information and Avidyne’s exclusive two-way MultiLink™ datalink weather service. Alliant’s EX500/EX5000 MFDs include CMax™ Electronic Charts, and have interfaces to many popular airborne weather radar systems, as well as interfaces for EGPWS/TAWS, lightning and traffic. Additionally, the EX500/EX5000 provide access to Avidyne’s FlightCenter™ services for flight tracking and two-way text messaging capabilities.
All-Digital, Attitude-Based Autopilot
The S-TEC IntelliFlight™ 2100 is a full-featured digital, multi-axis,attitude-based autopilot.
The IntelliFlight 2100 features all the advanced modes you come to expect on a high-end digital autopilot including: GPS Roll Steering (GPSS), Heading Hold, NAV & Approach Modes, Altitude Hold with Altitude Trim, Indicated Airspeed (IAS) Hold, Vertical Speed Select & Hold, Course Intercept Capability, and Yaw Damper.
Incorporating the most advanced features and functionality ever introduced into a general aviation autopilot system, the new-generation IntelliFlight™ 2100 Digital FlightControl System (DFCS) is the culmination
of S-TEC’s nearly 30 years as the worldwide leader in autopilot innovation.
The advanced functionality found in the IntelliFlight 2100, combined with Avidyne’s Envision™ integrated avionics suite provide King Air 200 and C90 pilots with a level of capability that they could previously only hope for and complement them with an ease of operation that is unmatched by any comparable system.
In creating the IntelliFlight 2100, S-TEC didn’t just design a new autopilot, it engineered an integral part of the Alliant Integrated Flight Deck that would take full advantage of the advanced capabilities offered by the Avidyne Envision PFD.
For example, the IntelliFlight 2100 features Indicated Air Speed (IAS) Hold and Control Wheel Steering (CWS) functions. After selecting the target climb or descent airspeed on the Envision PDF, the IAS Hold function allows you to direct the autopilot to hold the desired Indicated Air Speed by simply pressing the IAS button on the IntelliFlight’s control panel. The function makes it easy to maintain specific airspeed management during climbs and descents.
Another feature of the IntelliFlight 2100 is Control Wheel Steering. When the autopilot is engaged, a switch on the yoke activates IntelliFlight’s CWS function, which disengages the servos, allowing the pilot to maneuver the aircraft as desired. When the CWS switch is released, the servos will re-engage and return
to normal operation.
The IntelliFlight 2100 also offers all the other capabilities pilots expect in a top-tier digital flight control system including GPS Roll Steering (GPSS), Heading Hold, NAV and Approach Modes, Altitude Pre-select, Altitude Hold with Auto-Trim, Vertical Speed (VE), Course Intercept Capability and Yaw Damper.
While the IntelliFlight 2100 is one of the most advanced autopilots available it is also one of the easiest to use. Like every S-TEC autopilot, this advanced digital flight control system is designed around putting you in control of your aircraft though every phase of flight.
From takeoff to touchdown, the S-TEC IntelliFlight 2100 DFCS combined with Avidyne’s Envision System creates the ultimate flight management system for King Air 200 and C90 owners and operators.
CMax™ — Maximizing Your Approach
Avidyne’s CMax™ Electronic Charts offer a world-wide library of geo-referenced approach charts and airport diagrams, helping you manage and access critical flight information and reducing the amount of paper required on board your aircraft.
Utilizing Jeppesen’s trusted JeppView™ Electronic Airway Manual, CMax makes accessing an approach or viewing an airport diagram a breeze. At startup, your departure airport chart is automatically loaded for ease of orientation, especially at unfamiliar fields. Your destination airport diagram and the list of available
approaches are automatically loaded at the time your flight plan is entered, and can be viewed easily using the auto-fill capability, or you can easily select and view any approach at any airport in the database.
EX500 and EX5000 with MultiLink™ XM Weather & FlightCenter™ Datalink Services
Avidyne’s exclusive MultiLink™ technology seamlessly integrates broadcast and two-way datalink capability for the most advanced and easiest-to-use datalink system you can get.
With MultiLink, the EX500/EX5000 MFD shows high-speed XM broadcast system, with the added enhancement of two-way datalink capability for aircraft-specific datalink communication.
The XM WX™ Satellite Weather service gives pilots comprehensive, graphical information about weather conditions all across the Continental United States (CONUS). XM WX delivers critical, real-time information for pilots including NEXRAD radar in high resolution, full-color graphical format, overlayed on Avidyne’s industry-leading moving map. XM also provides graphical and plain English textual METARs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, TFRs, winds aloft, freezing levels, TAFs, and cloud tops, NEXRAD cell movement, hail warnings, as well as lightning strikes from the National Lightning Detection Network®.
Using the two-way satellite network, Envision connects the aircraft to FlightCenter™ and Avidyne’s exclusive suite of datalink services including two-way text messaging and flight tracking. MultiLink also provides the added advantage of Canadian and Caribbean (Non-CONUS) coverage.
