Redbird Elevates Flight Simulator Fidelity With New Avionics Upgrades

Company announces G1000 NXi software update and forthcoming family of high-fidelity hardware.

Meg Godlewski

Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:00 AM ET

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Travis Tingle

Redbird Flight Simulations is bringing a new level of realism to aviation training devices (ATDs) with the NXi panel.

Key Takeaways:

Redbird Flight Simulations is launching significant enhancements to its aviation training device (ATD) flight deck software and hardware.
These upgrades aim to boost realism and fidelity, particularly for users of Garmin G1000 NXi avionics, making simulations more accurate to real aircraft.
The improvements include an updated G1000 NXi software emulation with better graphics and features (releasing August 17) and a new E001 instrument panel with higher-fidelity hardware (available early 2027).
The new products are modular, backward compatible, and designed to offer complete, more realistic, and reconfigurable cockpit experiences for diverse aircraft and avionics setups.

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One of the best aspects of Redbird Flight Simulations’ aviation training devices (ATDs) is that with a change of the plexigas instrument panel and a swap out of the throttle quadrant you can be flying a different airplane.

Those aircraft are about to become more realistic as Wednesday Redbird introduced an evolution of its flight deck software and hardware, bringing new high fidelity to the users of Garmin G1000 NXi avionics.