G5000 integrated flight deck from Garmin targets Part 25 business jet market

Posted by John McHaleATLANTA, 19 Oct. 2010. Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), announced that it is developing an, 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 such as worldwide weather, Garmin's synthetic vision technology (SVT), aircraft synoptics, electronic flight charts, and more."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," says Gary Kelley, Garmin vice president of marketing. 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. 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 three conventional controls at the bottom of the display: a volume control knob, dedicated map joystick, and dual concentric knobs for data entry. Pilots may choose to use the knobs instead of the touchscreen to enter information and the knobs' functions are always labeled on the display. The G5000 integrated flight deck is expected to satisfy the global operational requirements of emerging NextGen (Next Generation for U.S. airspace) and SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) initiatives. The new system 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 standard features for 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 navigation aids. 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 such as: active and passive traffic surveillance functionality using advanced TCAS II/ACAS II technology and featuring patent-pending Garmin automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast (ADS-B) target correlation and tracking for traffic management and airspace monitoring;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;voice/data communications supported by digital radios and SATCOM datalink will provide future growth capability;supports simplified database management via flyGarmin.com; and 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 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.

G5000 integrated flight deck from Garmin targets Part 25 business jet market

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