Sat, Aug 01, 2009
Available For Installation In Nearly 600 Different Aircraft
Makes and Models
Garmin International Inc. announced
Friday that it has received FAA Approved Model List STC (AML STC)
for the G500, an avionics suite announced earlier this week at EAA
AirVenture in Oshkosh. The FAA’s approval allows the G500 to
be installed in nearly 600 different makes and models of normal and
utility category Part 23 Class I and Class II aircraft, which are
defined as single and twin-engine piston and turbine engine
aircraft under 6,000 pounds.
Garmin’s G500 displays critical flight data in a digital
format on dual LCD displays, and allows pilots to quickly and
efficiently scan the data so that they can stay ahead of the
aircraft during all phases of flight. It incorporates two
individual displays – a PFD and MFD – in a customized
package designed to take the space that is currently occupied by
the instrument six-pack (attitude, airspeed, altitude, vertical
rate, turn coordinator and directional gyro). The G500 integrates
with Garmin’s panel mount WAAS GPS products, and replaces
traditional mechanical gyroscopic flight instruments with
Garmin’s solid state Attitude and Heading Reference System
(AHRS) that has superior reliability and accuracy, and features
rapid alignment while moving, including in-flight dynamic restarts.
The PFD display increases the pilot’s attitude indication by
over 50 percent over a traditional 3-inch attitude indicator.
A scaled version of Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology
(SVT™) software and the new GAD 43 autopilot interface are
available as options for the G500. With SVT, pilots will see a 3D
depiction of terrain, obstacles and traffic on the PFD so that the
avionics panel replicates what pilots would see outside the cockpit
on a clear day. The GAD 43 adapter is an autopilot interface that
allows the AHRS to provide attitude information to the autopilot in
place of a gyro-mechanical attitude director indicator (ADI) or
remote vertical gyro (VG). The G500 provides course deviation,
vertical deviation, heading bug, course pointer and ARINC 429 GPS
roll steering information to the autopilot, as appropriate.
The G500 is available now at an introductory suggested retail
price of $15,995. It includes the GDU 620 display/control unit, GRS
77 AHRS, GDC 74A digital air data computer, GMU 44 tri-axial
magnetometer and GTP 59 temp probe. The optional SVT and GAD 43 are
available for $4,995 and $2,995, respectively.
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