![]() ![]() I immediately felt at home, even though I was in a completely new cockpit environment. Maybe it’s a G10,000, but whatever you call it, it’s not your father’s G1000.Īs I settled into the left seat of a two-tone, claret-red and white SR22, I ignited the dual 12-inch screens that are the centerpiece of the Perspective system. The autopilot’s logic and failure modes are different they’re more fault-tolerant and robust, thanks to those redundant AHRS, and as such, the names were changed to protect the innocent. The operation and buttonology are different, meaning intuitive and logical. The architecture is different-dual and redundant attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS). The displays and bezels are different-bigger screens, fewer buttons. So when I visited Cirrus’ base of operations in Duluth, Minn., I was floored when I saw fighter-jet technology featured in the jointly designed Cirrus/Garmin flat-panel system called Cirrus Perspective.įirst things first, Cirrus Perspective isn’t a G1000. To Dassault, if this technology reduced pilot workload and increased safety at Mach 2, then it would at Mach 0.85. Remote data entry, radio tuning, trackball flight management system (FMS) control and the flight path vector are technologies that trickled down from Dassault’s Rafale fighter jet. The technologies and ergonomics found in the Falcon were eye-opening. Buttons are grouped logically according to function. The new center console integrates with Cirrus Perspective. And now, the game has changed again-this time for pilots of the Cirrus SR22-GTS and, ultimately, for pilots of smaller, piston-powered, technically advanced GA aircraft. Indeed, what Apple’s Macintosh did for personal computing, Dassault’s EASy system did for electronic flight instrument systems (EFIS) in large business jets-it changed the game. Similarly, the EASy system in the Falcon ushered in a renaissance in what was becoming possible in glass-panel systems, and I became a full-fledged, Kool-Aid-drinking believer. At the time, I had maybe a hundred or so hours flying the Avidyne Entegra integrated flight deck, which was then still relatively new to the SR22, and it was a revelation for its intuitive and straightforward operation. When the engineers at Cirrus Skunk Works branded the company’s Garmin-based, next-generation glass-panel system, Codename Fighter, the moniker was more apropos than they might have thought.Ī few years ago, I spent about seven hours at FlightSafety International getting familiar with the Dassault Falcon 900EX tri-jet, its Honeywell Primus-based EASy glass-cockpit flight deck and its Rockwell Collins Head-up Guidance System (HGS). ![]()
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