Touchscreen Flight Deck Available For Large Jets
Garmin announced Monday that it is developing a revolutionary,
integrated flight deck for the Part 25 business jet market. The
Garmin G5000 is designed specifically for crew-flown turbine
aircraft and combines a dual multi-sensor flight management system
(FMS), touchscreen vehicle management units, and multi-pane cockpit
displays. These widescreen displays with touchscreen controls give
pilots more useful information at their fingertips than ever before
such as worldwide weather, Garmin’s synthetic vision
technology (SVT), aircraft synoptics, electronic flight charts, and
more.
“We’re eager to serve the Part 25 market and are
confident that our fully integrated flight deck and award-winning
customer support will exceed the expectations of flight departments
and aircraft manufacturers in this segment,” said Gary
Kelley, vice president of marketing. “Like other Garmin
products, the G5000’s architecture is designed with future
growth and technologies in mind. Customers and aircraft
manufacturers will be able to add significant capabilities to the
system in the future, often without requiring additional
hardware.”
The G5000 features WXGA high resolution, wide aspect ratio
(12-inch or 14-inch diagonal) primary flight displays (PFD) and
multi-function displays (MFD). Because the G5000 is scalable,
aircraft manufacturers can choose as many displays as cockpit real
estate will allow. The landscape oriented screens have multi-pane
display capability that allows multiple pages to be viewed
side-by-side on any of the screens. Therefore, pilots can
simultaneously view maps, charts, checklists and aircraft systems
synoptics, TAWS, TCAS, flight planning, weather or video input
pages.
Combining and leveraging the experience gained from designing
and delivering automotive consumer products as well as integrated
avionic flight decks, the G5000 has a vehicle management system
with an infrared touchscreen interface that is easy to understand
and use – pilots simply touch what they want to change. The
vehicle management system has a desktop-like menu interface
with intuitive icons, audio and visual feedback, and animation so
that pilots know exactly how the system is responding to
their input. The touchscreen also enhances ease of use
through common sense functions like “back” and
“home” that let pilots quickly retrace their steps or
return to the home screen. The vehicle management system also
incorporates conventional controls at the bottom of the
display.
The G5000 integrated flight deck is expected to satisfy the
global operational requirements of emerging NextGen and SESAR
(Single European Sky ATM Research) initiatives. The G5000 includes
a three-axis, fully digital, dual channel, fail passive autoflight
system, and has the ability to provide tightly integrated
auto-throttle capability. It also has the features pilots have come
to expect in this class of aircraft such as wide area augmentation
system (WAAS) technology that enables GPS-guided LPV
“glidepath” approaches to ILS-comparable minimums
without reliance upon ground-based navaids.
Additionally, the G5000 has planned growth to provide RNP
procedures, including RNP SAAAR (required navigation performance
special aircraft and aircrew authorization required).
Displayed on the G5000’s widescreens, Garmin’s SVT
presents near life-like 3D depictions of terrain, obstacles,
traffic and the runway environment so that the image on the display
replicates what pilots would see outside the cockpit on a clear
day. SVT works seamlessly to alert pilots of potential ground
hazards by displaying terrain and obstacles which pose a threat to
the aircraft with appropriate TAWS alert coloring, as well as voice
alerts. SVT also includes the ability to display pathways (or
Highway-In-The-Sky) that are depicted as 3D “flying
rectangles” and help pilots stay on course when flying en
route legs, VNAV legs, GPS/WAAS vertical approach procedures, ILS
approach procedures, and arrival and departure procedures.
The G5000 also includes many other situational awareness and
safety of flight features that Part 25 operators will consider
essential:
- Active and passive traffic surveillance functionality using
advanced TCAS II/ACAS II technology and featuring patent-pending
Garmin ADS-B target correlation and tracking for industry-leading
traffic management and airspace monitoring.
- Advanced weather detection and avoidance technology.
- Optional Iridium-based worldwide satellite weather datalink
access.
- XM WX Satellite Weather for U.S. and Canada provides a variety
of real time weather data such as NEXRAD, METAR, lightning, winds
aloft, echo tops and more.
- Integrated synoptics (graphical systems displays) to help
simplify monitoring and.control of aircraft systems and aid in
troubleshooting of system problems that.might arise.
- Optional Electronic Stability and Protection system (Garmin
ESP™) works to assist.the pilot in maintaining the aircraft
in a safe, flight stable condition.
- Supports a “paperless flight deck” concept with
display capability for electronic charts, flight manual data and
more.
- Voice/data communications supported by digital radios and
SATCOM datalink will provide future growth capability.
- Supports simplified database management via flyGarmin.com.
- The ability to display video from a third party forward looking
infrared (FLIR) camera or other video sources for enhanced vision
system (EVS) or live-cam video monitoring.
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The G5000 will be supported by Garmin’s aviation customer
support team that provides 24/7 worldwide support. Garmin expects
to receive Technical Standard Orders (TSO) certification of the new
G5000 system in 2012. Cessna Aircraft Company is the first aircraft
manufacturer to announce selection of the G5000 for a Citation
business jet.