At the Aircraft Electronics Association convention yesterday, Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics introduced five two-inch digital instruments in its Flex lineup. The certified two-inch instruments include a digital counter drum encoding altimeter, airspeed indicator, GPS clock, battery annunciation control unit (ACU), and attitude indicator, and they feature daylight-readable LCD graphics and built-in controls.
The altimeter, certified to 55,000 feet, is priced at $5,500 and lets users select functions including vertical speed indication, six-second vertical trend, target altitude, approach minimums alerts, and baro setting (which can be in inches of mercury, millibars, or hectopascals).
Also selling for $5,500, the airspeed indicator has a hybrid readout with configurable range markings, display of groundspeed and true airspeed, user-selectable Mach number, and configurable dynamic MMO barber pole indicator.
Among the $3,990 digital GPS clockâs features are local/UTC time; flight, run, and countdown timer; stopwatch; time to waypoint; Hobbs time; and date. The clock can be synched to a GPS source to provide an estimated time to the next waypoint.
The battery ACU is designed to monitor and display health information for True Blue Power Gen5 lithium-ion batteries, including battery status, state of charge and health, volts, amps, temperature, remaining life, and fault information. The ACU price is $2,500.
The above instruments are available now, while the attitude indicator begins shipping in the fourth quarter. It can also display heading via the optional Mid-Continent MD32 magnetometer.