Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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A panel full of Genesys Aerosystems avionics has received FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) approval on Sikorsky UH-60A and EH-60A Black Hawk helicopters. Operators can choose between a fully integrated avionics suite or modular “building block” options to match budget constraints while paving a path to future upgrades.

 


The upgrade’s chief benefit is the replacement of older electromechanical instruments, which tend to be less reliable and more costly to repair, with Genesys NVG-compatible, MIL-STD IDU-680 displays, which include a digital attitude/heading reference system.&nbsp;

 


Genesys's full package can replace all instruments in the Black Hawk, including engine gauges. A typical Black Hawk installation would include four displays in portrait layout, a digital three-axis autopilot, and radios.&nbsp;

 


These displays offer synthetic vision, HTAWS, georeferenced hover vector, and Genesys’s Open Architecture System Integration Symbology special mission systems interface. Also included is dual GPS SBAS navigation, which supports modern approach procedures, according to Genesys, “including the new point in space helicopter approaches, U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue patterns, and user-defined precision approaches.” Engine instruments on the new displays include a quadruple-redundant engine indication and crew alerting system.&nbsp;

 


The Genesys Digital Radios feature VHF com with optional 118 to 156-MHz frequency range, 25 or 8.33-kHz channelization, and 16 or 25-watt transmit power. Another option for the GDR is embedded UHF 225 to 400-MHz com.

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