17 October 2024
+VIDEO It’s no exaggeration to say that this is probably the most high-tech function-rich flight deck available in all aviation: the new Garmin G3000 Prime, announced just a few days before the world’s biggest business aviation event, NBAA.
The head of Garmin aviation, Phil Straub, said, “Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck.
“Ten years later, we introduced the G3000, bringing the first touch screens to the light turbine cockpit, and revolutionary technologies like the award-winning Garmin Autoland.
“With over 30,000 Garmin integrated flight decks now in service, we are proud to introduce G3000 PRIME, the industry’s most intuitive and advanced flight deck to date.”
G3000 Prime has 14-inch touchscreen primary display units with edge-to-edge, sunlight-readable, fingerprint-resistant glass backed by multiple performance enhancements such as quadruple the memory and gigabit system connectivity that is said to be up to 100 times faster.
Garmin says that G3000 Prime’s new multi-touch touchscreen interface is capable of recognising up to 10 touchscreen inputs at once, allowing both pilot and copilot to interact with the same display simultaneously.
It also has an array of safety-enhancing technologies available only from Garmin, including Autonomí, Garmin’s family of autonomous safety-enhancing technologies. Garmin Autoland can take complete control of the flight to land the aircraft in an emergency situation where the pilot is unable to do so1.
There are additional safety tools such as Smart Glide™, Smart Rudder Bias, Electronic Stability Protection (ESP™), Emergency Descent Mode (EDM) and Garmin Autothrottle.
