PowerLink™ FADEC
Intelligence Engineered By Aerosance

55 years ago, In the 1950's, automobile manufacturers touted "aircraft-inspired" designs in their products, co-opting the excitement surrounding a new generation of technology that was propelling airplanes through the air and into the public's imagination. A lot has changed in 50 years.

Piston-powered aircraft control systems today fall woefully short of the technology that has found its way into the cars most pilots drive to the airport. In fact, your average grocery-getter operates without a thought. It goes 30,000 to 100,000 miles without needing a tune up and when it does go in for service, technicians diagnose problems using precise, electronic tools that can look inside the vehicle's operation, pinpoint problems and suggest how to fix them.

Until Aerosance, technology that allows this type of performance and maintenance in a piston-powered aircraft was a far off dream.

Aerosance was formed in 1996 with the mission of making that dream a reality through development and application of advanced technologies for piston-powered airplanes.

Based in Farmington, Connecticut, Aerosance is the creative alliance of electronic systems professionals with a lifelong passion for general aviation. The people of Aerosance have focused their long history of expertise in electronics, mechanical design, manufacturing, systems engineering, micro controllers and software development to make general aviation more economical and modern-technology-based. PowerLinkTM (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) is the result of that effort.

In 2000, Aerosance received FAA certification for general aviation's first production Full Authority Digital Engine Control system, PowerLinkTM FADEC. As in a turbine aircraft or a modern automobile, PowerLink FADEC reduces a pilot's engine management tasks to simply selecting the desired power setting through a single control. You can now forget about managing the engine and focus on flying.2