Flight Displays

A walk through the production facility that houses Innovative Solutions & Support lifts the curtain on the wide range of avionics created within, each set on solving a specific issue for a specific aircraft model. Geoff Hedrick founded the company in 1988 to do just that—with great success over the intervening 34 years. Hedrick died […]

As announced on August 4, general aviation avionics OEM Aspen Avionics has been acquired by The AIRO Group. The new owner has a fairly deep bench in aerospace, holding a portfolio of companies in a wide range of aerospace segments, including commercial and military, and piloted and remotely-piloted vehicles. Flying spoke with Aspen’s CEO John […]

Garmin today announced European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval of the G5 electronic flight instrument for installation in certified general aviation airplanes in Europe. The approval covers light airplanes weighing less than 2,700 kilograms (5,952 pounds), and follows a similar STC for the non-TSO’d display approved by the FAA last summer. The G5 electronic flight […]

More than two dozen aircraft models across a wide range of aircraft builders, including Beechcraft, Grumman, Maule and Mooney, are now eligible to install Dynon flight displays, thanks to the supplemental type certificate created by the Experimental Aircraft Association in partnership with Dynon and the FAA. The number of Cessna and Piper aircraft eligible for […]

If you’re growing tired of notoriously unreliable vacuum-driven and gyroscopic instruments, here’s a new option that will easily slot right into your panel. Garmin has obtained FAA approval for its G5 electronic flight display, originally developed for the Experimental market, through an STC covering 562 Part 23-certified aircraft models. The 3.5-inch unit is approved for […]

MyGoFlight, known for its growing product line of iPad mounts, screen protectors, flight bags, clothing and more, has introduced a head-up display called Skydisplay. HUDs have been used for decades in military, commercial and business jet aircraft, but so far they have been too large and too expensive to be viable in the light general […]

Piston and turbine aircraft in the 6,000- to 12,500-pound category (FAA Class III) are now eligible to retrofit their steam gauge panels with Aspen Avionics’ Evolution EFD1000C3 Pro Primary Flight Display (PFD). Aspen president John Uczekaj said many operators of Class III aircraft will also install companion Evolution Multi-Function Displays (MFDs) to complement the PFDs. […]

Aspen Avionics has partnered with a pair of third-party shops to earn several supplemental type certificates for helicopter applications. Announced at Heli-Expo in Houston, the STCs include those for installing Aspen EFD1000H flight display systems in Bell 206 and 407 models. As with fixed-wing applications, the EFD1000H replaces the six fundamental mechanical flight instruments with […]

Most pilots believe that it’s easier to fly IFR with a big flat-glass primary flight display (PFD) instead of the six-pack of mechanical instruments. Until recently I wasn’t convinced. I don’t know of any controlled studies that have compared the pilot workload, or the precision of basic attitude, altitude, heading and airspeed control, when flying […]