Garmin's G5 electronic flight display has received FAA approval (STC) for 562 Part 23-certified aircraft, allowing it to replace unreliable vacuum-driven and gyroscopic instruments. The 3.5-inch unit ...

With today’s glass cockpits, “partial panel” now probably means reverting to a backup gyro artificial horizon, either electric or vacuum driven. Even some six pack-equipped aircraft (with vacuum ...

In most air forces and most airlines, when a pilot nears his landing field he calls the ground, asks for the “Kollsman number.” What he gets is the atmospheric pressure in that area, necessary to ...