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Glass cockpit cessna1/9/2024 ![]() The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) starts to define a glass cockpit by defining what they call an Integrated Flight Deck. In a glass cockpit, like the popular Garmin G1000, these instruments no longer exist, and the data is displayed digitally. The typical six-pack on an older aircraft includes six primary instruments (hence the name ‘six-pack’), including the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, vertical speed indicator, turn coordinator and the directional gyro (DG). PFDs and MFDs have the capability to display all of the traditional instruments along with lots of additional data such as engine data, checklists, weather and traffic displays.Ĭonventional Instruments/six-pack: (Wikimedia) It’s a term given to any aircraft in which the primary instruments are located within a single primary flight display (PFD) or Multi-Function Display (MFD) that looks like a computer screen – a large, flat, glass-panel display. So what makes a cockpit glass? The term “glass cockpit” generally refers to an LCD display that replaces the conventional “six-pack” of flight instruments in an aircraft. If you haven’t flown an aircraft with a glass cockpit, you will likely find yourself in one very soon. This technology, once reserved for only the most advanced jets, is now available, and even commonplace, for light aircraft. ![]() Today’s factory-built aircraft come equipped with glass cockpits, which is a fancy name for the advanced technology found on board aircraft. You may be familiar with the term ‘glass cockpit’, but what is a glass cockpit? And what does that mean for today’s flight training? ![]()
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