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Garmin Announces Runway/Taxiway Safety Software

AV Web

Garmin announced this morning (August 14) it has received certification for its runway occupancy awareness (ROA) software dubbed Surface Indications and Alert (SURF-IA). The software leverages ADS-B traffic information to call out potential runway incursions involving airborne traffic, aircraft on the ground, and ground vehicles.

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Business jet flight decks

Professional Pilot

Pro Line Fusion provides the industrys first touch-control primary flight display (PFD). inch widescreen displays, which can be customized for full- or split-screen use. By combining real-time sensor inputs with advanced visual modeling, the SVS highlights runway markers, lead-ins, and airport domes.

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RNAV Approaches Simplified: A Guide for New Pilots

Pilot Institute

Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. Heres how you decide: If you can see the runway (or certain lights or markers for the runway) when you reach the DH, you can keep going and land. If you dont see the runway before reaching MOLRE, you have to go missed. Thats up to you!

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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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Flying Through the Center of a Trough Should Have Been Uneventful

Flying Magazine

We asked Potomac Approach to change our destination to Richmond (KRIC) and received a clearance for vectors to final to the ILS Runway 2. The current observation included a gusty northeast wind in heavy rain with a visibility less than 2 miles and a runway visual range (RVR) that varied from 6,000 feet to better than 6,000 feet.

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Flight vision systems

Professional Pilot

However, when Gulfstream introduced its Honeywell-made Synthetic Vision System – Primary Flight Display to business aircraft in 2005, it was the real thing. SVS is integrated with flight instruments and primary flight displays (PFDs) to give flight data, such as heading, altitude, airspeed, and attitude.

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Top Features and Performance of the SR 22 Cirrus Aircraft

Airspeed Junkie

The evolution of the SR22 took a decisive turn with the advent of the Avidyne Entegra primary flight display in 2003, making it the first light aircraft to come with a full glass cockpit.

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