Danish entrepreneur Jørgen Andersen has flown for the last 30 years chalking up more than 1,600 fixed wing and helicopter hours – but his first flight from California to Denmark this month (December) in his Mustang was special. “I have crossed the Atlantic in my Citation 501 more than 20 times and now I will cross the Atlantic a couple of times per year in the Mustang. I can just tell you that the Mustang flies extremely well but it has complicated avionics and you need to become familiar with the Garmin G1000.”

The fully functional Garmin G1000 equipped Mustang includes an integrated, dual channel fail passive digital autopilot. It is certified to take advantage of WAAS navigation features including WAAS LPV approaches that provide both lateral and vertical guidance. The Garmin G1000 avionics suite also includes SafeTaxi, which provides a graphical representation of the Mustang in the airport environment.

Andersen, who founded a vision technology company in 1963 and lives half the year in California and the other six months in Denmark, has under-gone Mustang flight safety training. “For the last 10 years I have flown a Citation 501 and now I plan to use the Mustang both in Europe and the United States,” he says.

JAI has been at the forefront of new developments in vision technology, providing innovative digital camera technology for applications in machine vision, medical equipment, defence and high-end surveillance systems, as well as providing complete solutions for vehicle identification in traffic enforcement and traffic management. It has operations in Europe, the U.S. and Japan, 230 employees worldwide, and a revenue of US$50 million in 2006 and 2007 with distribution partners in more than 30 countries.

“Our vision systems help improve customer businesses in numerous ways, improving quality and accuracy of products, lowering production line inspection costs, increasing production yields or creating higher efficiency in road traffic,” says Andersen. The systems are used in large-scale ITS projects including electronic toll collection, open road tolling, congestion charging, travel time information and parking enforcement.