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(/v 50% or (/v 50% ote ote _u _u p_ p_ do do wn wn /n /n By Robert Goyer / Published: Jan 23, 2012 od od Related Tags: OEM Avionics (/avionics-gear /oem-avionics) , Garmin (/gear -br ands/gar min) , Garmin G2000 (/r esults/gar min-g2000) e/ e/ 26 26 34 34 6/ 6/(February 201 2) Flat-panel av ionics sy stems for light airplanes, which seemed like the stuff of science 1/ 1/ vot vot fiction just a handful of y ears ago, hav e been around long enough to adv ance to a second generation. As far e? e? as Garmin av ionics are concerned, that second generation of glass panels takes the form of G2000 de de sti sti (h ttps://bu y .garm i n .com /sh op/sh op.do?pID=97668) , a sy stem that makes use of a lot of ex isting Garmin technology nat nat behind the panel but that incorporates an entirely new user interface, one that will change the way we fly . ion ion =n =n od od Just as it sounds, G2000 is the follow-on to the immensely popular G1 000 sy stem. In v arious forms and e% e% using v arious names, G1 000 has been installed as standard equipment in around 30 different models of 2F 2F 26 26 airplanes, from entry -lev el piston singles to light jets. G1 000 is standard fare on Cessnas lineup of piston 34 34 singles, from the high-performance Corv alis to the entry -lev el Sky hawk trainer. As a result, steam gauges 6& 6& tok tok are a my stery to many new pilots; to them, G1 000 is sy nony mous with av ionics. en en Garm in G2000 =5 =9 Enlarge Photo View Gallery 12 (/photo- a6 Just as G1 000 made its way into cockpits one airframe at a time, y ou can fully ex pect G2000 to do the 2fe (http://w w w .flyingm galler y/photos/gar min- 48f same, though the rate at which this happens might be slower than it was for its predecessor because of the 3f9 ae ag.com/sites/all/files g2000-photos) 0b 6b lingering economic woes that hav e slowed new-airplane manufacturing worldwide. In the meantime, ex pect /imagecache/enlar ge 9b 01 a lot of airplane makers to be looking to find way s to work G2000 into their product lineups in y ears to come. 5a 25 d_image/_images/20 8c ad 1201/FLY0212_Gar mi 04 I flew G2000 in a high-performance piston single in Austin recently with Garmins Ben Kowalski in the right seat. Our round-robin IFR flight was flown c0 largely n1_Big.jpg) a1f e5 in IMC and featured a good deal of turbulence, ideal for the purposes of ev aluating Garmins newest sy stem. fd 8c 26 b7 86 7e What is G2000? 2cf b3 Its been a while now since Garmin announced that it was going to be making touch-screen-controlled flat-panel av ionics sy stems; the first a) such launch2b was 68) with the G3000 sy stem in the HondaJet and the now-discontinued Piper Altaire. At NBAA 201 0, Cessna announced that it would put the Garmin G5000

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sy stem in its updated flagship, the Citation Ten. Cessna also announced that it would use the G2000 sy stem in its Corv alis TTx high-performance single.

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