Cockpit Primary Flight Display Runway 
Flying Magazine
JUNE 3, 2025
If you’ve flown in a Garmin glass cockpit with synthetic vision, then you may have seen the Pathways feature, a series of constantly moving rectangles on the primary flight display (PFD). That works well for short runways, say 3,000 feet or less. Without tools to assist them, they end up high or low on final.
Professional Pilot
APRIL 3, 2025
While it may be common to find some very spartan instrumentation on an open cockpit biplane at the local fly-in, the level of complexity increases exponentially in turboprops and jet cockpits. Technically, even a cockpit lighting rheostat qualifies as avionics, but pilots typically associate the term with advanced technology.
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Pilot Institute
JULY 4, 2025
Pilots constantly watch out of the cockpit windows, and air traffic control monitors traffic in the airspace. Pilots themselves scan for traffic by looking out the cockpit windows. The system will announce “ Traffic, traffic, ” and on your cockpit display the intruding aircraft will be highlighted (often in yellow).
AV Web
MAY 4, 2025
One of its main, parallel north-south runways is closed for construction, and a recent handing off of a large swath of approach responsibilities to Philadelphia has combined with some staffing woes to make a mess of things (See Russ Niless update on the details.) On arrival in St. Courage under fire. Even so, our angst was not over, yet.
WayMan
MAY 25, 2025
These include: Fuselage Wings Cockpit Engine Propeller (in some aircraft) Tail Assembly (Empennage) Landing Gear Understanding how these parts interact is essential to grasping the basics of aerodynamicsand its one of the first steps in becoming a safe and informed pilot.
AV Web
AUGUST 14, 2024
Garmin announced this morning (August 14) it has received certification for its runway occupancy awareness (ROA) software dubbed Surface Indications and Alert (SURF-IA). The software leverages ADS-B traffic information to call out potential runway incursions involving airborne traffic, aircraft on the ground, and ground vehicles.
Professional Pilot
JANUARY 2, 2025
By Jake Carpenter Contributing Writer F rom rudimentary analog gauges to todays sophisticated, fully integrated avionics, the evolution of cockpit technologies has revolutionized how pilots interact with their aircraft. Pro Line Fusion provides the industrys first touch-control primary flight display (PFD).
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