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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At the Aircraft Electronics Association convention yesterday, Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics introduced five two-inch digital instruments in its <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-02-22/flex-flips-certification-burden-custom-instrumentation">Flex lineup</a>. The certified two-inch instruments include a digital&nbsp;counter drum encoding altimeter,&nbsp;airspeed indicator,&nbsp;GPS clock,&nbsp;battery annunciation control unit (ACU), and&nbsp;attitude indicator, and they&nbsp;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 clock’s features are local/UTC time; flight, run, and countdown timer; stopwatch;&nbsp;time to waypoint;&nbsp;Hobbs time;&nbsp;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&nbsp;via the optional Mid-Continent MD32 magnetometer.

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