Three guesses what the “GX” stands for in the name of this new Mooney. The “G” gives it away. The airplane has the exciting new Garmin G1000 glass cockpit system that is revolutionizing the instrument panels of many new airplanes. Where the Mooney panel used to look small, with a lot of elements, it is now primarily two big screens, a primary flight display (PFD) on the left and a multifunction display (MFD) on the right. All navigation, communications and flying information is available in this integrated system.
Because Flying has had coverage of the G1000 system in other airplanes over the past several months, we’ll look mainly at the differences in the system as it is installed in the Mooney Ovation2.
