Flight Deck Pilot Primary Flight Display 
WayMan
JUNE 16, 2025
flight Instruments vs. Avionics An aircraft’s flight deck, with its collection of displays and controls, is a wonder of engineering. For a future pilot, a thorough knowledge of these systems is essential. Two terms that are often heard are “flight instruments” and “avionics.”
Professional Pilot
APRIL 3, 2025
Challenger 604, G-IV Contributing Writer Honeywell Primus Epic F ederal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 91.205 prescribes the minimum instruments and equipment necessary for flight. As the flying environment grows more complex such as under instrument flight rules (IFR) additional instrumentation becomes critical.
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WayMan
MAY 25, 2025
For anyone training to become a pilot or aviation technician, understanding the anatomy of an aircraft is one of the first essential steps. Cockpit: Where Control Happens Cockpit, also known as the flight deck , is the nerve center of the airplane. This is where the pilot and any co-pilot sit and manage every aspect of flight.
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).
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 25, 2024
Pilot Report is a collection of flying experiences sent by our readers and readopted as an article for this website. My headset lead was quite short, so I took the headset off so as to be able to look over the pilots. Pilot Report is a collection of flying experiences sent by our readers and readopted as an article for this website.
AV Web
AUGUST 14, 2024
ROA provides visual crew-alerting system (CAS) caution and warning annunciations on the pilot’s primary flight display (PFD) and highlights the runway yellow or red, depending on the level of threat, on Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT),” according to Garmin.
Professional Pilot
OCTOBER 10, 2024
However, when Gulfstream introduced its Honeywell-made Synthetic Vision System – Primary Flight Display to business aircraft in 2005, it was the real thing. Yet suddenly, neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night would keep professional pilots on the ground – or divert them into it. Some of them were fatal.
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