Check Lists – You always have checklists at your fingertips no more searching the cockpit for the paper copy.Terrain awareness and synthetic vision – Plays an important role in increasing situational awareness.Traffic display – In congested airspace, traffic display will never replace keeping the pilot’s eyes outside the aircraft but it can be an invaluable aid.Graphical weather display – The ability to have near real time data linked weather displayed in the cockpit provides pilots with forecasts, radar reports, satellite imagery, pilot reports, and more.Accuracy – With a glass cockpit, you are not interpreting altimeter or airspeed needle position, the numbers are displayed on the screen.In glass cockpit equipped aircraft, the viewing angle still makes a right-seater’s job difficult, but there is no parallax. The next time you are pre-flighting an airplane, try to read round dial instruments from the right seat. Has this advanced technology improved safety or the flying experience? I had one sales rep for a major avionics manufacturer, in a moment of unguarded candour, describe his company’s product as “just eye candy”.īut glass cockpits do have many advantages over round dials some of which are listed below: Advantages Some new pilots may never have flown with round instruments. This information is usually provided by the ATC controller.Ĩ - Distance and course to the current GPS navigation point.Glass cockpits have been around for decades, replacing the original round dials, first in transport category aircraft and then filtering down to the smallest general aviation and experimental aircraft.Īre glass cockpits for everyone? Traditionalists will maintain that using round dials is essential to obtain and maintain the excellent stick and rudder skills real flying demands, but glass cockpits are now a fact of life. The blue value below (29.92 IN) is the current pressure that has to be adjusted accordingly to the location. CRS (course) - course to the nearest GPS navigation point from the flight plan or VOR radio station.ħ - Altitude Indicator - shows the current altitude above sea level in feet.
HDG (Heading bug) - course set for the Autopilot mode. In addition to the compass function, it shows the current course of the aircraft (heading) in large white digits. Check the Autopilot chapter of our guide to find out more about this system.ĥ - Atitude Indicator - shows the aircraft's current position relative to the horizon.Ħ - Horizontal Situation Indicator - an extended version of the Compass Rose. It shows which modes the autopilot is currently in. TAS (True Air Speed) and GS (Ground Speed) are also shown in the screen.Ģ - Airspeed Indicator - shows the current speed in knots.ģ - Angle of Attack, that is, the angle of wing inclination relative to the air flowing around them.Ĥ - Autopilot Modes. The buttons at the bottom change the scale of the map. It displays the navigation data, map, flight plan, information related to engine operation.ġ - GPS map. Multifunction Flight Display (MFD) - right screen.It displays the basic information related to flight parameters (speed, altitude, course, etc.) It can be doubled to the right for the co-pilot. Primary Flight Display (PFD) - on the left.During the flight, it models hills and mountains, and even runways with taxiways.īy default, the system consists of two screens: The system also visualizes the terrain in front of the aircraft. These devices show most of the traditional analog gauges and indicators on a single screen. However, the basic elements involved in displaying the flight parameters are the same in every plane. In is slightly different in various planes and offers different functionality.
GLASS COCKPIT SIMULATOR
The glass cockpit in Flight Simulator 2020 is mainly based on a simulation of Garmin devices and two 10.4-inch screens. They can be touch-screens or display screens equipped with buttons around them. There are no analog gauges in the modern "glass" cockpits, only multifunctional screens.
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