IFD540/440 Touch Screen GPS/NAV/COM : IFD540 Certification Status

A couple of thoughts on that one:

I don't have the list of pre-buy customers handy so I don't know where you stack in that queue.   Obviously those that pre-bought early are going to have the opportunity for the early installs.   We will be running some form of a pilot program such that if you meet the right criteria, there is a chance for an even earlier install.

I'm glad you like the FMS in the IFD.   I've now logged over 225 hours on the IFD540, using the FMS on every flight and it's really a great piece of equipment.

I'm not sure I understand the dealer advice on that one.  It's not like we're going to fail to get this done and shipping.  And those that bought early got a great financial deal (one that is also 100% money back guaranteed) so I'm not following the dealer advice.    All the nonsense on the various forums forecasting the demise of Avidyne are both frustrating to read and highly misinformed.  We've been reading those silly predictions for years - they just aren't founded in reality.

As we get a few more of the milestones behind us from that list many posts above, we'll be able to provide very deterministic and reliable schedule estimates.   With these large cert projects, there are a ton of moving parts.  In a relative sense (the amount of work left to go relative to the amount of work done to date), we are close to the end.    I know the following statement is not quantitative in nature but we are transitioning from the "making sausage" stage to the "cert grind" stage.   There just isn't anything new to figure out or add to the system - we're just trying to cert over 1 million lines of software code - not hard to figure out, just a lot of grunt work.