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.

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Redbird Flight Simulations is rolling out significant software and hardware upgrades for its Aviation Training Devices (ATDs) to enhance realism and fidelity, particularly for Garmin G1000 NXi avionics.
The enhancements include a new G1000 NXi software emulation (releasing August 17) offering improved graphics and features, and an "E001" instrument panel (available early 2027) with higher-fidelity hardware and embedded displays.
These modular and backward-compatible advancements aim to provide more accurate and effective flight training by closely emulating real aircraft cockpits and avionics systems.

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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.