From the more basic single-box upgrades to complete panel retrofits, these avionics experts can offer the buying advice you need. Ready for Your Dream Panel? A EA member repair stations can turn the panel of your airplane into the panel of your dreams. In addition to factoring in your safety, situational awareness needs and pilot workload, AEA member certified repair stations carefully evaluate your type of flying; what communications, navigation and surveillance equipment you need in the regions you fly; and, most importantly, how the avionics and instruments remaining in your aircraft will interface with the upgrades you are introducing to the panel. These before and after photographs are examples of aircraft retrofitted by AEA member certified repair stations. The objective of each project explains what went into the aircraft to ensure the owner/pilot was getting the desired return on investment from an aircraft-value and aircraftmission standpoint. ► Piper PA-46 Matrix BEFORE Mansfield, Mass. www.NexAirAvionics.com AFTER ► NEXAIR AVIONICS WHAT WAS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT? The objective for this Piper PA-46 Matrix was to take the original panel equipped with the Avidyne EXP5000 PFD and Avidyne EX5000 MFD, along with two Garmin GNS 430Ws and a Garmin GMA340, and upgrade to the Avidyne Entegra Release 9 panel with PS Engineering’s PMA8000B audio panel (with Bluetooth). - 30 -http://www.NexAirAvionics.com