Garmin

Piper owners and students training for their multiengine ratings will have an easier time flying their Seneca Vs as Piper has achieved an amended type certificate adding Garmin’s GFC 700 autopilot, which is integrated with the G1000 avionics system. The FAA sign-off was achieved a little more than one year after Piper started installing the […]

The engineers at Garmin’s Team X have come up with yet another product to benefit pilots of amateur-built and light sport aircraft. Just a few months after the Olathe, Kansas-based company launched the G3X Touch, a smaller version of the system has been released. The new G3X Touch has a 7-inch screen, providing an option […]

Garmin is making flight planning a whole lot easier with a new family of wireless gateway products that permit users to send their flight planned route from an iPad or Android tablet straight into the panel-mounted avionics in the cockpit. Part of the Garmin Connext product line, the Flight Stream 210 wireless gateway uses Bluetooth […]

The Garmin Pilot app for the iPad and iPhone now offers global coverage, providing users with worldwide charts and maps, weather information and flight plan capabilities. Garmin said it has also added radar and satellite imagery coverage for Western Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S. along with European VFR charts from Deutsche Flugicherung (DFS) and […]

At its Tuesday morning Sun ‘n Fun press conference Garmin’s aftermarket manager Jim Alpiser announced the availability of accessories for Garmin’s hot selling and long battery-life Virb action cam, a move that puts the new product on even better footing compared with the ubiquitous GoPro cam. The two new Garmin accessories are both ones that […]

Flight Design has selected the panel offerings for its new four-seat airplane, the C4, currently in the development phase in Germany. The company has branded its panel offering the Vision Touch by Garmin. While the C4 is in process of Part 23 certification, the main screens are coming from Garmin’s G3X Touch, designed for the […]

On the heels of Garmin’s introduction of an angle-of-attack indicator that can integrate with the G3X avionics system, designed for amateur-built, experimental and light sport aircraft, the Olathe, Kansas-based company has announced a new touch-screen version of the system. In addition to providing touch screen features, the G3X Touch can be incorporated with a slew […]

A nifty little safety device that is getting more and more recognition in the aviation industry is the angle of attack indicator. Avionics and personal GPS production giant Garmin announced today that it is in the process of developing its own AOA unit named the GI 260 AOA. The GI 260 provides pilots with audible […]

Garmin this morning launched a portable SiriusXM receiver designed for use with its handheld GPS navigators that the company says offers up an array of in-flight weather data that was previously available only to purchasers of higher-tier subscriptions. The new GXM 42 brings a full complement of weather information to the cockpit, including Nexrad graphics, […]

The latest software update for Garmin’s G500 and G600 cockpits is now available and includes a number features that are specific to certain airframes and installations. Here’s a rundown of all the changes, available now as a free software upgrade: · With the latest software, Garmin says many TBM 700/850 models with a G600 flight […]