Garmin has officially announced the launch of its most advanced integrated flight deck yet in G3000® PRIME, which sets a new standard in integrated avionics.
According to certain reports, G3000® PRIME brings forth sleek, intuitive, all-touchscreen displays and a highly flexible open system architecture that adapts to serve a broad and dynamic market.
More on the same would reveal how it leverages a state-of-the-art user interface design and advanced connectivity to effectively enhance safety potential and efficiency, while simultaneously minimizing pilot workload in every phase of flight. Furthermore, having achieved FAA TSO certification, the technology is now ready to serve Part 23 turbine, military and advanced air mobility (AAM) markets.
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from how G3000 PRIME features expansive 14-inch touchscreen primary display units (PDU) with edge-to-edge, sunlight-readable, fingerprint-resistant glass, thus redefining expectations in cockpit aesthetics and functionality. You see, these vibrant displays include multiple performance enhancements, such as quadruple the memory and gigabit system connectivity which is up to 100 times faster. Making this all the more impressive would be the presence of faster multi-core processors that, on their part, double the processing power, doing so through Garmin’s experience in certifying multi-core technology for civil and military aviation markets. Here, you can also expect higher display refresh rates providing crisp, smooth animations, and an impressively responsive and fluid experience.
Beyond that, there are complimentary secondary display units (SDU). These SDUs conceive for users data entry and system control, along with the capability to display multi-function applications. Markedly enough, this high-resolution, 7-inch SDUs boast a 40% increase in screen area over prior Garmin touch controllers. In certain aircraft applications, the stated SDUs can even play the role an integrated standby flight instrument display, something which removes the need for a dedicated standby flight instrument in the panel.
Next up, we must dig into G3000 PRIME’s new advanced multi-touch touchscreen interface. This interface comes bearing an ability to recognize up to 10 touchscreen inputs at once. Furthermore, its enhanced multi-touch technology enables on-screen hand stabilization so to let pilot give precise touchscreen inputs, and at the same time, rest their fingers on the display. The whole setup even offers you support for dedicated control devices that allow intuitive physical control of commonly used functions through Garmin-designed products and third-party devices, as well as hands-on throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) controller designs for the military and defense markets.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the presence of Primary Flight Windows (PFW) and Multi-Function Windows (MFW), both well-equipped to maximize situational awareness with full-screen or split-screen options. Alongside that, we have new quick access bars to help pilots open common apps such as maps, traffic, weather and charts with one touch. In fact, when viewing maps, pilots can touch anywhere to open a radial menu with options for accessing airport, weather, or airspace information, or quickly adjust a flight plan via graphical editing.
G3000 PRIME also delivers at your disposal enhanced flight management system (FMS) tools like the Modified Flight Plan, which allows pilots to use both the PDU and SDUs to provide a side-by-side graphical preview of flight plan changes, including performance calculation comparisons or what-if scenarios. In case that wasn’t enough, then we ought to mention how, during initialization, pilots can also elect to set up an Emergency Return function, meant to simplify pilot responses to in-flight emergencies shortly after takeoff.
Apart from that, the technology in question provides advanced automation with smart checklists that are linked to crew alerting system (CAS) messages. This means, whenever pilots receive a CAS message associated with a checklist, they can simply tap the message to open the appropriate checklist with a single touch. Joining the mix next is a fact that these checklists can now also sense indications and show the item which is in an incorrect position, value or configuration. Not just that, you can even expect an option to quickly view detailed synoptics.
