Piper To Launch Garmin G3000 Touchscreen Cockpit

Oct 23, 2009
Kerry Lynch

Piper Aircraft is launching Garmin's new G3000 avionics package on the single-engine Piper Jet, the companies announced. Garmin unveiled the G3000 during this week's National Business Aviation Association 62nd Annual Meeting and Convention in Orlando, Fla., as the first touchscreen-controlled integrated flightdeck for light turbine aircraft.

Piper in 2007 had selected Garmin as the vendor to supply the avionics suite for the PiperJet, but did not finalize the specifics of the package at the time. Piper executives had said the cockpit would be based on Garmin technology but the final product would incorporate the newest advancements available.

Garmin believes the G3000 will be "the next leap forward" in the general aviation cockpits. "It promises to be one of the most intuitive and powerful flightdeck systems ever designed for Part 23 turbine aircraft," said Gary Kelley, Garmin vice president of marketing.    READ MORE:    AviationWeek.com