On Tuesday at the Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida, Daher unveiled the model year 2024 Daher TBM 960, which features enhanced pilot awareness and lower workload. The TBM 960 on display this week at the show sports a new Sirocco paint scheme with silver, matte blue, and black highlights.
Among the updated model’s enhancements is a pilot inactivity detection function for the HomeSafe emergency autoland system, which automatically activates after 30 minutes if there is no pilot interaction with the aircraft’s systems. According to Daher, the system provides several prompts and warnings before automatically activating autoland.
Other new features include a graphical weight and balance presentation on the multifunction display, 3D SafeTaxi, a runway occupancy awareness function, and added alerts messages to increase pilot awareness. The latter includes “yaw damper” engagement and “check gear” notification, as well as “propeller abort” if the propeller is not in the correct configuration. Additionally, the primary flight display now shows visual effects that enhance stabilized approach monitoring.
Based on customer feedback, Daher also added an LED nose gear landing light to the 2024 model.
“The TBM 960 is the fastest-selling version of all the members in our TBM aircraft family,” said Daher’s aircraft division senior v-p Nicolas Chabbert. “This is underscored by our backlog that exceeds two years of production, with some 120 TBM 960s delivered to date.”