Aspen Max Upgrade

[N645XL]

I pre-purchased the Aspen Max upgrade 16 months ago. It was finally installed yesterday. I had a chance to fly it for about 2 1/2 hours and I’m very impressed. I also had the audio panel interface connected so altitude and terrain alerts come through the headsets.There are other features that give it the airline cockpit look and feel but overall I am pleased with it.

[paulmilo]

1 or 3 screens? Any pictures?

[N645XL]

1 and pictures at a later date.

[marvbrito69]

You would have the screen of the vm-1000 for sale

[Bigphoto]

Before I sold my aircraft here is the 2000 Aspen IMAX with IFD-540/440, STEC-30 and Garmin 345 transponder

[Bigphoto]

Here is Aspen 2000 Max in XL-2

[N645XL]

Bigphoto - Did you wire the Aspen Max’s audio output into the audio panel?

I had them do that while they had it in the shop. I like that it warns me +/- my target altitudes. If you have the terrain feature it announces collision warnings too.

[GimpyPilot]

There's an AD on those that came this morning that requires an addition the flight manual which restricts them to Day/VFR flight as there have been some instances of random resets in flight. It's not an issue for mine since I retained all of the round gauges as well. Aspen has, or is about to release a software patch to deal with the issue.

-Michael

[Bigphoto]

I did have them hard wire it into my communication panel too. Glad that Aspen has a fix as that would be a drag if you had to restrict it to Day/VFR if you took out the gauges.

[N645XL]

My unit was installed with the latest software version. S/N 0115 is good to go.