The advent of high performance of GA airplanes such as Glasair III, Lancair IV, Mooney TLS, etc., provides GA with far more cross-country travel capable airplanes. Many of these airplanes are equipped with state of the art avionics that rival business jet cockpits. Consequently, their owners/users often look upon them as on demand almost all weather travel airplanes. This usage pattern as well as their performance capability for high altitude cruise will expose them to a greater variety and possibly duration of adverse atmospheric electromagnetic environment, atmospheric conditions such as rain, icing, lightning, etc. The advantage offered by LTI is integrating HIRF & LEMP protection along with lightning protection at the cockpit systems level. High cost avionics and other airplane flight critical and essential systems will be protected and transient effects due to P-static are also minimized providing a more reliable IMC GA cockpit environment and avoiding expensive repair or replacement costs.Commercial Applications:LTI will commercialize a testing, installation and certification service for emerging digital avionics systems in the GA industry. Industry manufacturers can take advantage of the system integration design documentation created for FAA Part 23 certificationm thereby overcoming present cost obstacles for protection of IFR/IMC capable avionics. Current aircraft refurbishers and avionics installers as well as new aircraft and avionics manufacturers will constitute the potential customer base.
