There are numerous single and twin engine aircraft out there that were manufactured in the 50’s and are still buzzing the skies in America. These have been lovingly maintained by their owners who often wish they had worthy replacements for their ageing, outdated and often unreliable aircraft instrument panel.

More often than not, they hesitate to replace the old aircraft instrumentation because of cost concerns. Fortunately for them, J.P. Instruments, a California based company has been manufacturing cost-effective aircraft instruments which are an ideal replacement for single and twin engine aircraft instrument panels and also the best possible way to convert ancient analog flight instruments into modern space-age digital flight instruments.

Converting analog to digital not only brings in accuracy, it brings i ... Read more »

During the 30’s when aircraft instrumentation first began to make their appearance, aircraft engine management system meant an airspeed indicator, turn-bank coordinator, manifold pressure, altimeter, engine RPM, compass, and the climb-dive indicator.

Navigation meant a magnetic compass mounted in front of the pilot and there was another compass in his pocket just in case he had to bail out which back then, was quite frequent. Pilots flew a couple of hundred feet above tree tops so they could navigate by roads, landmarks and railway tracks. Pilots flew at night only if they had no option. More often than not, they would miss their destination by hundreds of miles and also required bonfires on the field during landing. Fatal accidents were routine and the plane would invariable have to be written-off.
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The mysterious disappearance of Malaysian airline flight 370 as well as the more recent crash of the AirAsia flight in and around the same region, highlights the need for better airplane safety both in terms of its handling by ground personnel as well as the kind of information provided to pilots via onboard flight instruments and aircraft engine data management systems.

It’s not that technology or the instruments are not available – the aftermarket in onboard flight instruments and aircraft engine data management systems is a big industry. The fact is, a lot of aircraft owners especially those buying pre-owned aircraft, don’t realize the risk they take by flying aircraft with obsolete onboard flight instruments.

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J.P. Instruments announces their new and exciting range aircraft cockpit enhancements aimed specially at those planning to or who have purchased a pre-owned single or twin engine aircraft.

Buying a well maintained pre-owned aircraft is just part of the romance of owning an aircraft. Statistically, the age for new owners is less than the age of the former owners of the aircraft. Consequently, the new owners being more in tune with the times, desire a cockpit that is more informative, is colourful and preferably one that can sync with a laptop via a cable or download data to a USB stick.

California based JP Instruments does exactly that – design and manufacture state-of-the-art after market glass instrument panels for single and twin engine aircraft. Not only do these new instrume ... Read more »

Buying a well maintained pre-owned aircraft is just part of the romance of owning an aircraft. Statistically, the age for new owners is less than the age of the former owners of the aircraft. Consequently, the new owners being more in tune with the times, desire a cockpit that is more informative, is colourful and preferably one that can sync with a laptop via a cable or download data to a USB stick.

California based JP Instruments does exactly that – design and manufacture state-of-the-art after market glass instrument panels for single and twin engine aircraft. Not only do these new instrument clusters replace several existing instruments, they provide a wider range of data with unmatched depth that is just not possible to get from the older instruments.

Moreover, the cluster is colourful, stores data which can be easily transferred via cable or USB to a computer.

With carefully planned, designed and enginee ... Read more »

<img manifold="" pressure="" sensor"="" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.jpinstruments.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/map.gif" src="https://www.jpinstruments.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/map.gif" align="left" height="146" width="230">J.P. Instruments announces their new and exciting range aircraft cockpit enhancements aimed specially at those planning to or who have purchased a pre-owned single or twin engine aircraft.

Buying a well maintained pre-owned aircraft is just part of the romance of owning an aircraft. Statistically, the age for new owners is less than the age of the former owners of the aircraft. Consequently, the new owners being more in tune with the times, desire a cockpit that is more informative, is colourful and preferably one that can sync with a laptop via a cable or download data to a USB stick.

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Wish your aircraft cockpit instrument cluster provided you with better information? Today you can easily upgrade your aircraft cockpit instrument cluster – either all of it or parts of it at a fraction of what it would have cost a few years back.

Not long ago a basic two-display EFIS upgrade cost upwards of $70K. Back then aircraft owners who upgraded their instrument panel benefited greatly from it but had to pay a dear price. Today you can buy an all-in-one unit for your light single or twin that consists of solid-state attitude indicator, synthetic-vision primary flight display, a heading reference system, built-in terrain alerting, air-data computer and a moving map in colour for under $20K.

Take the EDM-930 by JP Instruments for example, it is fully certifie ... Read more »

Now a make-over for your aircraft cockpit – get rid of those monotonous grey instrument panels. Re-do your aircraft cockpit with colour to match your personality and add colourful avionic instruments and aircraft precision products from JP instruments.

Remember the first time you sat in the cockpit of your own aircraft? For months you were on a new high but overtime you must have wondered if there was anything you could do about the overall drabness of the cockpit.

Technology has advanced, aircraft cockpit instruments have become more accurate but the OEM products that come pre-fitted for single and twin engine aircraft are frankly, not only drab but fail to tell the entire story i.e. they do not cover every vital aspect of the aircraft engine.

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With cost of aircraft acquisition and aviation fuel reaching unprecedented levels coupled with expensive engineering and maintenance cost of each aircraft, it is imperative that we obtain every ounce of performance out of an aircraft engine. Also, from a purely investment point of view, a better performing engine will give better return on investment.

Just as every corporate keeps accounts to track the performance of its business; so also an aircraft engine monitoring systems keeps track of the aircraft engine performance. Doing so helps detect anomalies and detects parts of the aircraft engine that might not be performing at their optimum levels.

In most cases, all that is required is a little synchronized tweaking. But if anomalies are not detected early and corrected, it could not only l ... Read more »

With cost of aircraft acquisition and aviation fuel reaching unprecedented levels coupled with expensive engineering and maintenance cost of each aircraft, it is imperative that we obtain every ounce of performance out of an aircraft engine. Also, from a purely investment point of view, a better performing engine will give better return on investment.

Just as every corporate keeps accounts to track the performance of its business; so also an aircraft engine monitoring systems keeps track of the aircraft engine performance. Doing so helps detect anomalies and detects parts of the aircraft engine that might not be performing at their optimum levels.

In most cases, all that is required is a little synchronized tweaking. But if anomalies are not detected early and corrected, it could not only l ... Read more »