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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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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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Exploring the Essential Sections of an Aircraft: A Comprehensive Guide

Pilot's Life Blog

The cockpit, also called the flight deck, is where pilots use electronic flight instruments as part of a primary flight display. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose.

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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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Pilot Report: Flying in the Martin Mars

Vintage Aviation News

We also got to look more at the cockpit controls and an explanation of some of the features of the flight deck which featured a modern EFIS Primary flight display and an excellent navigation display with GPS terrain mapping, very useful for when fighting fires flying at low levels in mountainous terrain.

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Garmin Launches Software to Warn of Potential Runway Incursions

Plane and Pilot

For aircraft equipped with a Garmin integrated flight, which includes ADS-B, this is a software upgrade.” Warning annunciations appear on the SafeTaxi map while simultaneously appearing on the multifunction window.

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Flying Through the Center of a Trough Should Have Been Uneventful

Flying Magazine

As we turned to intercept the localizer, the winds were 360 at 53 knots at 2,000 feet, according to our wind vector on the primary flight display. My first inclination was to proceed onto Charlotte at 4,000 feet, but I wasn’t sure of what was causing the rough air above.

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