By early/mid November we will likely have onboarded a beautiful, new-to-us DA42 with WAAS (LPVs here we come..!) and GFC700 with yaw damper and a flight director supporting constant airspeed climbs and vertical navigation!
No more constant altitude disARM surprises, and no more intercept overshoots and AP-initiated Dutch rolls on the localizer 🙂
Synthetic Vision will continue to be available and come in very handy on night and IFR flights as well as XM Satellite WX and Radio.
It will also feature upgraded brakes (Beringer) to help avoid producing flat spots or even flat tires (braking gently above 50 KTS is still always a good idea!), and reclining seats (please handle gently!).
At that point our current two twins (or at least one of them) may have moved on from BFI – we will see.
Stay tuned...!
PS Please please please treat this plane like it was your own, and like it was new. Some DA42 features are notoriously fragile and can be easily broken if not handled with care, e.g. all of the locks on canopy doors and aux tank lids or the seat recliner.