Garmin G500 Gets FAA AML STC
GRMN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Garmin International, a unit of Garmin, a provider of satellite navigation, announced that it has received FAA Approved Model List Supplemental Type Certification (AML STC) for the G500, a new avionics suite announced recently at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.
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 said its G500 displays critical flight data in a digital format on dual LCD displays, and allows pilots to 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 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.
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