Garmin International yesterday announced the release of a new glass cockpit flight deck for IFR/VFR helicopters.
The G3000H was designed specifically for turbine-powered helicopters, and features two 305 mm flight displays and a central 145 mm touch screen controller.
“The G3000H blends a superior feature set and safety-minded technology into a contemporary platform for the VFR/IFR turbine helicopter market,” said Carl Wolf, vice president of aviation marketing and sales.
“With the G3000H, we’re excited to bring IFR capabilities in an advanced integrated flight deck and further expand our product offering so our partners have even more options within this class of helicopters.”
The forward-fit G3000H offers a number of features, including WAAS/SBAS, ILS approach capability, VFR and IFR helicopter charts and wireless integration. It’s also equipped for ADS-B In/Out, offers visual approach guidance and an HSI map.
Several features of the G3000H have been tailored to address helicopter-specific issues, including:
- Helicopter synthetic vision technology (SVT), which displays a view of the surroundings on the PFD to provide assistance on nighttime operations or in degraded visibility. This includes visual and audible alerts of potential ground hazards by displaying terrain, available obstacles and powerlines
- Hover display, which provides a combination of location, heading and vector references to help guide and orient pilots during hovering
- Voice command, which helps reduce pilot workload by using automatic speech recognition technology built into the audio system. This system accepts hundreds of voice commands at the push of button on the cyclic
- Helicopter terrain awareness warning system (HTAWS) that provides graphical and audible alerts of potential terrain and obstacle conflicts along the flight path of the helicopter. Voice call-outs are also available in 100-foot intervals beginning at 500 feet. An additional 50-foot call-out is available with an optional radar altimeter
- Hover performance, which displays hover data, including IGE (in ground effect) and OGE (out of ground effect) based on current conditions, while cruise performance automatically calculates VNE, minimum and maximum airspeeds, range and endurance.
The G3000H has been selected as standard fit on the new Swiss-built Kopter SH09.
More information on the G3000H is on the Garmin website.