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Garmin?s G600 Receives Certification, Deliveries Begin

During the heady days of Oshkosh 2008, Garmin confirmed to ANN that it had received FAA Approved Model List Supplemental Type Certification with an Approved Model List (AML STC) for the G600. The FAA?s approval allows the G600 to be installed in 785 different makes and models of normal and utility category aircraft, including twin combustion engine and turbo-prop engine aircraft with a certification weight up to 12,500 lbs.

This is good news for those of us with airplanes that we'd kinda like to keep... but still want to take advantage of the glass panel revolution -- and without mortgaging our houses to do so.

Garmin?s G600 incorporates two individual displays ? a PFD and MFD ? in a customized package designed for an easy retrofit installation. The G600 combines primary flight data including attitude and air data with navigation, weather, terrain and traffic data displayed in an intuitive pictorial format on dual LCD displays. This large, user-friendly presentation allows pilots to quickly and efficiently scan the data so that they can stay ahead of the aircraft during all phases of flight.

The G600 is designed to integrate with Garmin?s panel mount WAAS GPS products. It replaces traditional mechanical gyroscopic flight instruments with Garmin?s solid state Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) that has superior reliability and accuracy, and features rapid alignment while moving, including in-flight dynamic restarts. The PFD display increases the pilot?s attitude indication by over 50 percent over a traditional 3-inch attitude indicator.

The G600?s size (10?w x 6.7?h) allows for easy installation into the existing instrument panel in most aircraft. The system is designed to take the space that is currently occupied by the basic ?T? or six-pack of instruments (attitude, airspeed, altitude, vertical speed, turn coordinator and directional gyro). The MFD provides p