Flying Colours Corp.,
the North American MRO, completions, and
refurbishment company will be attending MEBAA 2016
in Dubai next week, having announced it has
completed its first installations of the Satcom
Direct Router (SDR).
The first was fitted
as part of a Global 5000 cabin refurbishment
package, and the second as part of a new Global 5000
completion project for an undisclosed private Middle
Eastern owner.
Whilst crew and
passengers on this aircraft are already benefiting
from the SD services, including the Global VT
option, the aircraft is now expected to return to
the Flying Colours Peterborough facility in early
2017 to have the supplemental SD WiFi Hub installed.
This will add functionality to, and augment the
performance of, the existing SDR. This is the first
time Flying Colours will have fitted the complete
suite of SD router options onto an aircraft.
Flying Colours
Corp. has been a reseller for Satcom Direct products
for over three years, and these initial
installations serve to strengthen the existing
relationship with the Florida-based company. It is
anticipated that further SDR installations will come
online as the number of large cabin, long-range
aircraft move through the Flying Colours facility
increases.
“The SDR is a very
clever piece of technology that enhances cabin
communications, information provision and
entertainment options. With its ability to adapt to
existing and new harness wiring, it is a product
that we are advising clients to install to future
proof their connectivity needs. The addition of the
SD WiFi Hub is an intelligent way of maximizing the
full range of SD services, ensuring powerful
bandwidth and consistent connectivity throughout the
cabin,” says
Eric Gillespie,
Executive VP, Flying Colours.
The SDR enables
the use of personal smart phones for text and voice
calling, optimizes bandwidth for connectivity to the
Internet, and can stream data around the world. It
also supports the SD Pro flight operations
management platform. “We anticipate that we’ll see
demand for this piece of technology grow
exponentially as owners and operators begin to
expect their ground environment to be replicated in
the air,” adds Gillespie.
Flying Colours
will be promoting its suite of technology solutions
during this year’s MEBAA - DWC Airshow Site, Dubai,
6-8 December - at Booth 460. The latest installation
underlines the expanding range it can offer to
completion and retrofit clients on a wide variety of
aircraft models. Just under a year ago it announced
its collaboration with INAIRVATION as the North
American installation facility for the
pre-engineered retrofit solutions which incorporates
the nice® HD Cabin Management and Inflight
Entertainment system (CMS/IFE) from Lufthansa
Technik with functionality integrated into new
ergonomic side-ledges manufactured by F/LIST.
In July it
announced it had selected Rockwell Collins Venue
system to be a standard fit on all future CRJ
ExecLiner conversions.
“Technology
requests are forming a major part of completion and
refurbishment requests and with this in mind we want
to be sure our customers have the widest choice
available from the best in class,” concludes
Gillespie. |