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. One is flying arrivals, and the other is flying visual approaches.

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Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Pro Line Fusion provides the industrys first touch-control primary flight display (PFD). inch widescreen displays, which can be customized for full- or split-screen use. By combining real-time sensor inputs with advanced visual modeling, the SVS highlights runway markers, lead-ins, and airport domes.

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Flight Deck Jet Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Primary Flight Display 75

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

The modification declutters the panel by installing sleek high-resolution LED backlit displays that serve as the primary flight display (PFD) and multifunction display (MFD). Touch screen and cursor controls allow pilot selectable layers of data (including synthetic vision) to be displayed.

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Cockpit Weight-Shift-Control Flight Deck Instrument Meteorological Conditions 40

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. SVS is integrated with flight instruments and primary flight displays (PFDs) to give flight data, such as heading, altitude, airspeed, and attitude.

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Flight Deck Primary Flight Display Approach Runway 52

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 13, 2024

The evolution of the SR22 took a decisive turn with the advent of the Avidyne Entegra primary flight display in 2003, making it the first light aircraft to come with a full glass cockpit.

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Knot General Aviation Primary Flight Display Pilot 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

An autopilot and Aspen primary flight display reduce workload on long flights. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway. Planning Pays Off Our takeoff from Santa Fe’s runway 02 went exactly as planned. Since I filed an IFR flight plan, I requested the Flagstaff One SID.

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