avionics

Eclipse Aerospace’s upgraded Avio Integrated Flight Management System (IFMS) has sold out through March 2012, the company announced this week. With Avio IFMS, the new company has come a long way from the Eclipse 500‘s original avionics system. Specifically designed for the Eclipse very light jet by avionics supplier Innovative Solutions & Support, Avio IFMS […]

Bombardier’s Global Vision flight deck has earned Transport Canada certification, marking the first such approval for the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion-based avionics system. The milestone clears a path for Bombardier business jets equipped Global Vision components to obtain certificates of airworthiness, said Bombardier vice president Stéphane Leblanc. “To date, we have completed over 600 […]

Climbing into a Cirrus SR22 equipped with Avidyne’s Entegra Release 9 avionics system after spending three hours flying in the left seat of a Diamond DA40 fitted with Garmin’s G1000 cockpit felt like stepping onto the surface of another planet. Arrayed before me in the Cirrus were two large flat-panel displays presenting all the usual […]

(June 2011) The FAA has issued an STC to Eclipse Aerospace for its Avio Integrated Flight Management System (IFMS), specifically designed for the Eclipse twin-engine light jet by Innovative Solutions & Support. The IFMS system is an upgrade to the already certified AvioNG system. As was the case with other systems, the avionics package originally […]

At the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar presented by the NBAA and Flight Safety Foundation, Rockwell Collins introduced a new head-up guidance system, the HGS-3500, which is intended for light to midsize business airplanes equipped with the company’s Pro Line Fusion flight deck. It’s the first time that a head-up guidance system will be available to […]

We fly Garmin’s new panel-mount touch-screen navigators. Here’s why one flight will make you want one. Or two.

(April 2011) SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION in 1998, Garmin’s remarkable GNS 430 navigator and its larger GNS 530 companion have become the de facto standard in aftermarket aircraft avionics. And no wonder: In the various iterations, the multifunction panel-mount units serve as a moving map, a navigation receiver, a communications transceiver, a GPS (and, later, WAAS) […]

Fresh on the heels of its tour de force announcement at the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) show in Reno last week of the GTN 750 and GTN 650 panel-mount touch-screen navigators, Garmin released details at the show of its G2000 flat-panel touch-controlled avionics suite. The package will be installed at the factory in new airplanes. […]

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. If you really can’t beat them, find a friend who can at least help you score a few body blows. That appears to be the belated strategy of Honeywell, which has enlisted Aspen Avionics of Albequerque, New Mexico, to complete the development and certification of the Bendix/King KSN […]

Last night at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Reno, Nevada, Garmin shook up the avionics world with the introduction of two new panel-mount navigators, the huge Garmin 750 and the smaller but similarly capable Garmin 650. The two navigators are touch screen devices that do everything the GNS 430 and 530 do and more […]