Garmin

Garmin’s Team X has developed new equipment for experimental and light sport aircraft, providing new audio panel options and an electronic flight instrument. Garmin’s GMA 245 and remotely mounted GMA 245R audio panels provide “home theatre sound quality to the cockpit,” says Carl Wolf, Garmin’s vice president of aviation sales and marketing. The new audio […]

Garmin today unveiled the aera 660, its new portable navigator that offers a number of new features, including wireless data uploading, a 5-inch capacitive touch-screen display, wire-strike avoidance technology and compatibility with a wide range of the company’s existing products through Garmin’s Connext wireless connectivity. “Pilots have been asking for a new, purpose-built, easy-to-use aviation […]

The Garmin app has been updated for Pilot aviation, adding a slew of functions to improve the user experience. The app now integrates both iOS and Android devices with the company’s recently released GTX 345 ADS-B In/Out transponder. New views, airspace labels, access to X-Plane version 10 or higher through Wi-Fi, and VFR charts for […]

This week, Garmin announced its GTX 345 and GTX 335 all-in-one ADS-B transponders that include dual-link ADS-B In and extended squitter (ES) ADS-B Out, with options for built-in WAAS. Starting at $2,995, the ADS-B compliant transponders integrate with Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight Mobile apps as well as numerous Garmin displays, including select G1000 integrated flight […]

At this week’s NBAA show in Las Vegas, Garmin announced a new series of aviation products that are designed to make the runway environment safer. By providing audible and visual cues, Terminal Safety Solutions alert the pilot of threats to safety in the airport environment. The Terminal Safety Solutions include SurfaceWatch, TerminalTraffic and SafeTaxi. SurfaceWatch […]

Garmin and Pratt & Whitney Canada have teamed up to offer major discounts for King Air operators who are ready to upgrade their airplanes’ avionics and engines. King Air 300/350 owners who purchase two new P&WC PT6A-60A engines under the Fleet Enhancement Program (FEP) may qualify to receive a free Garmin G1000 avionics suite. Other […]

Earlier this month, Garmin invited Flying’s editors to join them on Wingfoot One’s first trip home to its renovated hangar in Pompano Beach, Florida. After riding along in the right seat for a bit, chief pilot Michael “Doc” Doughtery let me try my hand at flying the beast. The experience? Doc said it best: “It’s […]

From Garmin’s latest offerings comes the GTC 580, a new touchscreen controller option for the G2000, G3000 and G5000 integrated flight decks. The high-resolution landscape display adds standby flight display capabilities while using the same GTC 570 interface that provides full flight deck management control, such as flight planning, radio and audio management, and weather […]

Garmin is expanding its online course curriculum with a course designed to help pilots interpret onboard weather radar data. Weather radar is a terrific tool for pilots to avoid adverse conditions in the sky and help them make better weather-related decisions. Garmin’s Weather Radar Operations eLearning Course teaches pilots basic and intermediate weather radar operations, […]

Operators of many of Garmin’s G1000 avionics suites can now upgrade their systems to meet the ADS-B requirements set for implementation in 2020. The company has matched its GDL 88 ADS-B box with the integrated avionics suite as well as several other systems. The GDL 88, which is part of Garmin’s Vantage ADS-B suite of […]