PowerLink™ FADEC
Intelligence Engineered By Aerosance
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.
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Funnemark in his Tango-Two with PowerLink FADEC installed in January
of 2004.