With just under two weeks until Sun 'n Fun, we have a lot of exciting news to share. Today we announce The New SkyView, which includes SkyView Touch, two new control panels, and SkyView 10 software - our biggest and best release ever. With The New SkyView, Dynon will continue to offer the most complete and capable avionics solution available for light sport and experimental aircraft. We're really excited to start shipping in April.
Go Fly!
Michael Schofield
Marketing Manger
Dynon Avionics
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Dynon Avionics today unveils The New SkyView™ integrated avionics system. The latest edition of Dynon's flagship product includes SkyView Touch™, two new control panels, and dozens of new features in SkyView 10.0 software. We've focused on creating an incredible pilot interface with SkyView Touch™ and new dedicated control panels. From the simplest LSA to the most complex IFR aircraft, there's a SkyView for every panel. Complete information about The New SkyView can be found at www.TheNewSkyView.com.
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 Today, SkyView enters a whole new era: touch. "Touch when you want it; Turbulence when you don't." What started as a grammatically challenged joke of a catch-phrase turned into the philosophy that we used to guide the design of SkyView Touch™. Although we all use touch-controlled products like smartphones and tablets in our daily lives, turbulence can quickly render a touch interface practically impossible to use. SkyView Touch solves this by using touch to augment and complement the physical buttons and joystick knobs rather than replacing them outright. It's the best of both worlds. Elements like on-screen keyboards speed up entry of airport identifiers and the map zooms and pans just like you've experienced on every tablet you've used. Touch an airport for more information, or an airspace and the altitudes pop right up. Touch the altitude bar and the closest knob assigns itself to adjusting your altitude bug. Touch the transponder and up pops the transponder menu. The system retains Dynon's industry leading screens with incredible brightness and anti-glare properties, so there's nothing in the way of your flight on a bright, sunny day. The ability to dim enough for even the darkest nights? That's still there too.Not interested in touch? That's OK: the non-touch D1000 is still available, and it isn't becoming a second-fiddle product. SkyView Touch is built on the same platform and runs the same software as non-touch products, so everyone will continue to get the same software updates in the future. To top it all off is the price: $3,995, only $395 more than a non-touch screen D1000. Customers that already own a D1000 today can upgrade for only $795, no panel cutting or re-wiring needed, just drop it in. SkyView touch begins shipping in April 2014.
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Dedicated Knob and Autopilot Control Panels
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 Complementing SkyView displays are the new SV-KNOB-PANEL and SV-AP-PANEL Control Panels, designed to minimize workload and provide the pilot the most intuitive and direct interface. The Knob Control Panel has dedicated controls for the most-frequently adjusted items - altitude bug, altimeter setting (baro), and heading/track bug. The Autopilot Control Panel provides single button activation of all autopilot modes, including LEVEL mode and flight director. It has a built-in two-axis speed-sensitive trim controller. Both products are backlit, dimmed by SkyView, and available in horizontal and vertical versions. |
The SV-KNOB-PANEL can be added to any SkyView system for $250 (MSRP). The SV-AP-PANEL can be added to any SkyView system for $550 (MSRP). They are both
incredibly easy to install with simple plug-n-play integration to SkyView Network with no aircraft wiring needed. There is even an extra port as well, to allow easy daisy-chaining. Both will ship April.
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 Pilots new to glass can transition with ease utilizing SkyView's new "six-pack" primary flight instruments. Familiar round gauge depictions bridge the classic "retro" instruments with the state-of-the-art. Pilots can switch between six-pack and the modernized EFIS display instantaneously. Six-Pack mode is included in the free SkyView 10 software update. |
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Dual and Large Engine Support
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Customers with two engines can now equip with dual EMS modules to monitor each engine independently. Two engine modules can also be used by pilots with larger engines to monitor all of their EGTs and CHTs, eliminating the need for them to choose which cylinders to monitor. Up to 28 total EGTs and CHTs can be monitored along with all other typical engine sensors.
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VFR Sectionals and IFR En-route Charts
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 SkyView's map gains geo-referenced VFR sectional charts and IFR Lo/Hi charts with SkyView 10 software. In another breakthrough pricing move, ALL US charts are available through a partnership with Seattle Avionics at no price increase from the existing procedure chart subscriptions. This means that $99 will buy customers a year of IFR/VFR procedure charts (plates), VFR sectionals, IFR Lo/Hi charts, and all FAA and Flight Guide airport diagrams. All products are geo-referenced. With US digital airport/aviation/obstacle data available free from Dynon's website, there aren't any added hidden database costs. SkyView customers in the US can have a complete paperless cockpit for under a hundred dollars a year. |
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SkyView 10 software: Our Biggest Release Ever!
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The New SkyView continues to add value for all SkyView customers with its most substantial free software release yet. SkyView 10 software is due to launch at the end of March and includes over 30 new features including:
- The ability to filter the nearest airport list by runway length, surface, and airport type.
- ADS-B winds aloft forecasts.
- Audible landing gear alerts based on aircraft configuration and airspeed for both retractable gear aircraft.
- Airspeed-triggered 'gear up for water' / 'gear down for land' audible alerts for amphibious aircraft.
- Altitude Intercept Arc that shows a cyan arc projected at the place on the map that the aircraft will intercept the altitude bug based on the current climb/descent rate.
- Flight plans from ARINC-429 IFR GPS navigators such as the GNS and GTN series can be displayed on SkyView's map (including holds and other procedure turns) and SkyView's flight plan display.
- Vertical Speed Required info item on the map and VSI tape gives the pilot quick insight about the descent rate needed to reach an adjustable point above/before the destination.
- Engine instruments can now be livened up with new color options, including: blue, white, violet, cyan, and orange.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: Is there a 7" SkyView Touch?
A: No, SkyView Touch is only available in the 10" display form factor (the SV-D1000T)
Q: Will there be SkyView Touch upgrades for existing SkyView SV-D1000 customers?
A: Yes! Because the SV-D1000 and SV-D1000T SkyView Touch displays are the same form factor, one is a drop-in replacement for the other. We will have an upgrade path for existing customers for $795. Customers will need to send in their Displays directly to Dynon Avionics for upgrade. Upgrades will not be available upon launch in April, but will follow soon thereafter. Additional details will follow.
Q: When do the new products start shipping?
A: In April. Exact release dates are still TBD.
Q: When does SkyView 10 software release?
A: At the end of March: We expect to release SkyView 10 software to the web and on new shipping products just before the new control panels and SkyView Touch commence shipping.
Q: When can I place orders for the new products?
A: Dynon does not take orders for new products until they are actually shipping. We expect to ship SkyView Touch and the new control panels in April 2014.
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