Garmin International announced that its G950 and G600 displays will be available as optional equipment on Tecnam’s P2006T, P2002 JF, and P2002 JR airplanes.
The G950—based on Garmin’s G1000—will be for the twin-engine P2006T, while the G600 is available for the other, single-engine models. The P2002 JF is a fixed-gear model; the JR version has retractable landing gear.
The G600 consists of a separate primary flight display (PFD) and multifunction display (MFD) setup, and is designed to interface with Garmin’s panel-mount WAAS GPS products for more precise approaches to more airports. The PFD replaces the traditional “six-pack” of round-gauge gyroscopically driven instruments with Garmin’s solid state attitude heading and reference system (AHRS). The AHRS has much better reliability than gyroscopic instruments, and can align rapidly—even while in flight. The G600’s PFD’s display area is 50-percent larger than that of a standard three-inch diameter attitude indicator.
