A CanFly Lycoming engine management system is an advanced Electronic Fuel Injection and Ignition system that is designed to replace Slick Magnetos on the Lycoming O-Series engines. This brings many advantages:

• Simpler starting.
• No modifications to the engine other than installing components designed for aircraft use.
• Self powered and fully redundant for maximum reliability.
• An integrated CanFly® interface to allow programming and display of operational information.
• Better fuel economy.
• Fully programable.
• Auto throttle mode for best mixture at all times.
• Can have an optional mixture control for manual override.
• Supplied as a complete kit.

A CanFly® system is composed of several components. Each is designed for a specific use in an experimental aircraft:

• kECU electronic ignition, injection and generator units. There are 2 of these on each aircraft.
• An intake throttle body
• kEDU engine data unit to instrument the engine.
• A mixture and USB controller
• A multi function display with the Engine Data Display installed

Airventure

Kotuku has a booth at Airventure 2022.

We will be showing the complete CanFly® system. Won't be on an engine as too difficult to get that there!

We also plan to hold a couple of seminars on the diy-efis project as well as our engine management solutions.

See you at Airventure 2022 at Oshkosh Wisconsin!

Register your interest

In preparation for Airventure, we have created an expression of interest form.

We don't expect the worldwide chip shortage that is stopping us getting production quantities of systems produced to be sorted much before Q1 2023. So till then we are spending our time testing, and re-testing the systems.

Its off to the Dyno in August so will be sending some results after our test engine is put through a really interesting set of tests.

Features we are working through

There are so many thing we are working on, it is hard to pick the best ones but these are what we think is most significant.

• All of our embedded system components now have live update. Means we can deliver a firmware update that does not need to have the equipment removed.
• The auto-mixture mode will be able to seperately lean each cylinder to get peak on each one seperately. The current algorithm does it much like a mechanical fuel injection system and all are leaned seperately.
• A CanFly® system will ship with an EDU and EDM. Probes will still need to be ordered seperately as we would like to support people who are upgrading and already have probes.

Please register, we will then keep you updated as the system moves into general availability.