This revolutionary autopilot upgrade lets your GPS truly fly your flight plan hands-free. For WAAS-enabled GPS receivers, SAM will also provide roll-steering guidance for procedure turns and holding patterns!
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The WAAS upgrade builds on the incredible capabilities of this series of GPS receivers (400/420/430/500/530). In addition to adding cool features like LPV approaches and high resolution mapping, the WAAS-enabled Garmins work with SAM to emulate a flight management system (FMS) to automatically fly holding patterns, procedure turns, and other IFR flight procedures.
There are three ways to mount the SAM control interface to suit the individual aircraft:
A round 2.25" mount.
A half-ATI mount, which is often referred to as “the old KING DME” cutout.
Finally, the display can be mounted separately from the knobs, if desired. A 1" (2.5cm) hole is required for the display - which is also an on/off switch for roll steering. In addition, a rotary knob is used for most operations... and a toggle switch is used to mute or repeat audio.
SAM owners & dealers receive 100% support from the engineers who developed SAM from concept to certification. We’re a small but dedicated team and we’re here to provide email and phone based support during East coast business hours.
Notice: We are indeed planning a maintenance release of the SAM software. We will announce developments on this new web site. Check out our wish list page for discussions of possible components to this release.
Notice: We are experiencing problems with our previous IkonBoard technical support forum. As it is no longer supported by IkonBoard as it were, we are using the opportunity to migrate to this web content server. We will do our best in the upcoming weeks to migrate all the previous posts and accounts to this site. As there is no automated mechanism to do so, please bear with us as this is accomplished. [status update: we've ported a good portion of the old forum postings here].
Phone Support: 1-800-320-1971
FAX: 1-202-478-0969
Email: techsupport@samgps.com
SAM is available through any approved avionics dealer. Please contact your preferred dealer to order one today.
Dealers: If you are a member of AEA, you are pre-approved to offer SAM to your clients. Please call 1-800-320-1971 to place orders.
