ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has introduced the world's first hand-held combined global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver and VHF communications transceiver.
The company booked orders for more than 1,000 Bendix/King KLX 100s within days of launching the $1,400 GPS/comm. unit at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n Fun fly-in at Lakeland, Florida, in April.
The battery-powered KLX 100 combines an eight-channel GPS receiver with a 760-channel communications transceiver and a liquid-crystal-display (LCD) moving map. The unit's GPS-navigation database, available in North American or international versions, can be updated via personal computer.
Features include automatic tuning of the transceiver to frequencies in the GPS database and transmission of aircraft information and position via digitised voice on the 121.5MHz emergency frequency.
AlliedSignal General Aviation Avionics has now launched six new GPS products, all with moving-map displays, including:
the KLN 35A, a $2,300 panel-mounted GPS with LCD for visual-flight-rules (VFR) use;
the KLN 135A, a $3,200 panel-mounted GPS/comm. with LCD for VFR use;
the KLN 89, a $3,800 panel-mounted GPS with gas-discharge display for VFR use;
the KLN 89B, a $4,800 panel-mounted GPS for instrument-flight-rules (IFR) use, including non-precision approach;
the KLN 90B, an $8,500 panel-mounted GPS with cathode-ray-tube display for IFR/approach use.
Source: Flight International
