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Hawaii Mars Taxiing Around

Vintage Aviation News

For more information and to support this effort, visit www.bcam.net Cockpit view of the modernized cockpit in Hawaii Mars , put in mid 2000s, note the Garmin EFIS with vertical terrain depiction on the primary flight display and the full terrain map on the navigation display.

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The Pitot-Static System: How It Works

Pilot Institute

If you’re in a modern, fancy airplane with glass primary flight displays instead of round dials, then it uses something called an Air Data Computer to show these readings. Both the pitot tube and static port are connected to instruments through tiny pipes that carry the air pressure readings. Cool, right?

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Garmin Announces Runway/Taxiway Safety Software

AV Web

ROA provides visual crew-alerting system (CAS) caution and warning annunciations on the pilot’s primary flight display (PFD) and highlights the runway yellow or red, depending on the level of threat, on Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT),” according to Garmin.

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Business jet flight decks

Professional Pilot

Collins Aerospace The Pro Line Fusion integrated avionics system offers an all-in-one solution for flight deck modernization, and enhances safety, situational awareness (SA), and operational efficiency across aircraft platforms. Pro Line Fusion provides the industrys first touch-control primary flight display (PFD).

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Round Dials or Glass Cockpits: Which is the Superior Choice?

Pilot Institute

These cockpits combine all traditional instruments on multi-function displays (MFDs). This is called the Primary Flight Display (PFD). The main instruments in our six-pack are consolidated onto one screen. Some of the instruments on the PFD will look similar to those in a round-dial cockpit.

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Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots—2024 edition

iPad Pilot News

The AC recommends using position data from an installed GNSS source. Portable equipment is more likely to experience signal blockage, signal degradation, and performance degradation.

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Avionics and cockpit automation

Professional Pilot

The modification declutters the panel by installing sleek high-resolution LED backlit displays that serve as the primary flight display (PFD) and multifunction display (MFD). Touch screen and cursor controls allow pilot selectable layers of data (including synthetic vision) to be displayed.

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