As panel real estate is at a premium in helicopters, the GI 275 was designed for minimal space disruption. [Courtesy: Garmin]
Key Takeaways:
Garmin has received FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for its GI 275 electronic flight instrument in Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters, which are foundational for flight training.
The GI 275 is a compact, modern touchscreen instrument designed to directly replace various legacy analog flight instruments such as attitude indicators, CDIs, HSIs, or MFDs.
It offers improved reliability, potential weight savings, reduced maintenance, and advanced features including Helicopter Synthetic Vision Technology (HSVT) and multifunction display capabilities like weather and traffic overlays.
Its design allows it to fit into existing 3.125-inch instrument holes, reducing installation time and preserving the instrument panel, thus providing significant cost and downtime savings.
Garmin International Inc. has received supplemental type certification (STC) from the FAA for the GI 275 electronic flight instrument for Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters.
The two-place R22 and four-place R44 are the backbone of the helicopter training fleet. It is hard to find a rotor-wing pilot who hasn’t logged some flight time in one or both of these aircraft.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
