Among a host of new products and services on display at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Dallas, Texas, MyGoFlight offered two distinct innovations that stood out. The Colorado-based company known at first for flight deck mounting hardware and other targeted tools for GA aircraft debuted its InfinityPower panel-mounted USB charging unit and showed off its incoming SkyDisplay HUD, with AID (aircraft integration device) and Max Viz infrared camera. Both demonstrate upscale design and a thoughtful approach—and good timing to the market.
The InfinityPower device answers the reality of planned obsolescence that plagues users of portable electronic devices from iPhones to GPS navigators. A panel-mounted charger used to mean a 12-volt “cigarette lighter” that many legacy instrument panels still hold. In the past decade we’ve advanced to panel-mounted USB charging units, but with every design change to the connector technology—from USB A 2.0 to USB C, for example—a receptacle can quickly become obsolete. The InfinityPower device comes in two parts—a rear-mounted power base that can be wired from the back or the side, and a twist-on front-mounted piece housing the USB receptacle that can be changed out with advances in USB technology. Priced at $175 for the power base and $175 for each USB module, the device will be available in the fourth quarter 2021, with pre-orders taken through Aircraft Spruce & Specialty.
