Upgrades include: modernized engines,
glass cockpit display system, navigation, communication and a digital automatic flight control system; improved sensor capability and synthetic training solutions and more.
Two main features that set FAA apart from other aviation schools in the country are its fleet of brand-new Tecnam planes with Garmin G-1000 full
glass cockpit electronic instrumentation and the Redbird MCX and TD2 G-1000 simulators.
There is no doubt the
glass cockpit has breathed new life into a trainer that hadn't been sold to a military export customer since Saudi Arabia bought them in 2004.
[USPRwire, Tue Nov 03 2015] Digital
glass cockpit systems have become an effective means of enhancing the capabilities of military aircraft.
The '
glass cockpit', Carr says, is fast becoming a 'glass cage' that traps humans out of the decision-making process, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Gaithersburg, MD, October 26, 2015 --(PR.com)-- The global
Glass Cockpit for Aerospace market accounted for $1,507 million in 2014 and is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 3.0% to reach $1,910 million by 2022.
I'm planning a
glass cockpit retrofit and would like to install an electronic attitude indicator with airspeed and altitude tapes, plus battery backup.
The Islamabadbased manufacturer says that the fighter jet's
glass cockpit and handson throttle and stick controls reduce pilot workload, and it can be armed with beyondvisualrange active missiles with a range of 70 to 100 kilometers, and highly agile imaging infrared shortrange missiles.
The companies have formed the partnership to produce Glass4Flight, an application for pilots that connects WiFly, an integrated system that collects and communicates aircraft and flight data items in real time and links the data with Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses, which creates a Virtual
Glass Cockpit for the M100 Smart Glasses wearer.
"An NTSB safety study completed in 2010 concluded that '
glass cockpit' aircraft experience a lower total accident rate, but a higher fatal accident rate, than the same type of aircraft equipped with conventional analog instrumentation." Data from an associated presentation is captured in the bar graph above right.