{"id":28839,"date":"2024-06-03T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=28839"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:42:26","slug":"new-guimbal-added-to-apsus-helicopter-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/tennessee\/new-guimbal-added-to-apsus-helicopter-fleet\/%20","title":{"rendered":"New Guimbal Added to APSU\u2019s Helicopter Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Photo above &#8211; Austin Peay State University\u2019s new Guimbal G2 Cabri is equipped with technology similar to standard commercial aircraft and will offer valuable experience to students in the Aviation Science Program. | Photo by Colby Wilson <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin Peay State University\u2019s Aviation Science Program,\nhoused within the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics\n(STEM), has added a fourth Guimbal aircraft to its fleet at Hangar 5 at\nClarksville Municipal Airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Austin-Peay-G-2-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Austin-Peay-G-2-edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Austin-Peay-G-2-edit-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption> <br><br><em> Jerry Gray, the maintenance manager for Austin Peay\u2019s Aviation Science Program, works on the university\u2019s new Guimbal G2 Cabri. | Photo by Colby Wilson  <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guimbal G2 Cabri has a state-of-the-art touchscreen\nGarmin G500H, GTN 650TXi and Mid-Continent instrumentation. It also includes an\nupgraded GTX 345 transponder to identify other aircraft in close proximity and\nsend the aircraft&#8217;s position to others with similar abilities, allowing for an\nincreased level of safety and situational awareness. These upgrades will help\nAustin Peay\u2019s aviation students familiarize themselves with digital information\nsystems similar to those of many helicopters in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic aircraft, a 21st-century aircraft,\u201d said\nCharles Weigandt, the Aviation Sciences Program\u2019s director and chief pilot.\n\u201cBecause it\u2019s more state-of-the-art, the leap from this training aircraft to\nmore conventional, commercial aircraft is smaller because it\u2019s more\nup-to-date.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Weigandt\u2019s estimate, owning the Guimbals will reduce\nAustin Peay\u2019s operating costs by at least 45% as opposed to leasing the\nFrench-made aircraft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four wholly-owned Guimbal helicopters are joined in the\nAustin Peay fleet by two leased Robinson R44s at Hangar 5, which has more than\n10,000 feet of aircraft storage space. The program has grown exponentially\nsince it launched in 2019 &#8211; there are now 53 students in the program, including\neight expected to graduate in 2024 and a large influx of incoming freshmen\nscheduled to hit campus this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo above &#8211; Austin Peay State University\u2019s new Guimbal G2 Cabri is equipped with technology similar to standard commercial aircraft and will offer valuable experience to students in the Aviation Science Program. | Photo by Colby Wilson Austin Peay State University\u2019s Aviation Science Program, housed within the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-tennessee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Austin-Peay-G-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28842,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28839\/revisions\/28842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}