FlySafe is Avidyne’s outreach across General Aviation which is designed to enhance flight safety through partnerships with other industry constituents who share a similar commitment to flight safety. By enabling affordable and easy to use avionics safety products for aircraft owners and operators who are associated with Avidyne Fly Safe Partners, Avidyne hopes to enable those in general aviation to increase their ability to FlySafe.
Avidyne’s FlySafe Mission Statement:
To couple our avionics products with the services and offerings of our general aviation peer organizations to make flying safer.
“It’s amazing to know how many planes are up there that you wouldn’t be aware of without the TAS600.”
Ed Mashman - Santa Monica, CA - C182 and Avidyne TAS600 Owner
Who can be an Avidyne FlySafe Partner?
Avidyne’s network of FlySafe partners consists of general aviation organizations of all types. All of these organizations share a core mission of promoting safety in all aspects of their business practices. Typical organizations include aviation Maintenance Organizations, Avionics Shops, and Flight Schools.
Why should I become an Avidyne FlySafe Partner?
First and foremost, your should have a dedication to general aviation flight safety.
Secondly, Avidyne offers financial incentives to Avidyne FlySafe Partners who couple their safety offerings and services with Avidyne’s avionics products.
What are the financial incentives Avidyne’s FlySafe Program offers?
Avidyne believes that flight safety is an objective shared by various organizations in general aviation. This goal is instilled in pilots when they take their first lesson, and reinforced each time they take to the skies. Partner organizations further this ambition as they enable and service general aviation pilots. Flight schools and
maintenance organizations that promote flight safety through next generation avionics benefit each time one of their pilots purchase an Avidyne safety product. Specifically, Avidyne offers a 5% referral fee to flight schools and maintenance organizations who facilitate Avidyne FlySafe purchases.
Flight schools are eligible at any time. Maintenance organizations must refer their
customers to Avidyne during the period of the plane’s maintenance cycle.
What causes mid-air collisions?
A recent review of accident statistical data suggests that the risk of traffic conflicts are actually greatest between a fast moving and a slow moving aircraft. Equally compelling is that in several mid-air accidents, the NTSB determined that the probable cause was “the inherent limitations of the see and avoid concept,” and “underscoring the need for low-cost proximity warning and conflict detection systems.”
- On average, NASA receives 577 pilot reports of near in-flight collisions each year.
- On average, there are 15.6 midair collisions each year in US civil aviation.
- Failure to ‘see and avoid’ is cited as the probable cause for 94% of all inflight collisions.
- Advisory Circular 90-48C suggests that the total time required by a pilot to identify an approaching aircraft, recognize a collision course, decide on action, execute that action, and allow the aircraft to respond as around 12.5 seconds. (Avidyne’s TAS600 traffic systems provide a huge benefit with up to 30 seconds of warning time, more than twice the time required).
- Private pilots on VFR flights spend about 50% of their time on outside traffic scan during cruise, and only 40% during arrival & departure.
- Referencing an MIT-Lincoln Lab study: VFR pilots given a “TCAS-type” traffic advisory were able to visually acquire traffic 86% of the time, compared with 56% when no traffic advisory was available. And that’s in “severe-clear VFR.” (Of course, the presence of a traffic display allows pilots to “see” transponder-equipped traffic virtually 100% of the time on their display).
- Mitigation strategies include having reliable altitude encoding transponders activated at all times on all aircraft, and affordable and reliable collision avoidance technologies in all general aviation aircraft, as the NTSB recommended in 1987.”
The PIC is solely responsible for collision avoidance.
It’s clear that today’s on-board traffic avoidance systems -- which have become more and more affordable -- provide you with a ‘second set of eyes’ in the cockpit for the added measure of safety you need in today’s busy airspace.
How do I become an Avidyne FlySafe Partner?
Contact an Avidyne FlySafe representative at 800-Avidyne (800-284-3963)
