Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Garmin introduced its third-generation integrated flight deck, G3000 Prime on the eve of NBAA-BACE. The most unique feature of G3000 Prime is that all the displays are now touchscreens, and there are no touchscreen controllers as in the current G3000/G5000 avionics.
Already approved under FAA technical standard orders, G3000 Prime features 14-inch touchscreen primary displays with more powerful processors, larger screen real estate, and edge-to-edge glass. These replace the traditional primary and multifunction flight displays. Replacing the touchscreen controllers are secondary displays with 40% more display area, and these also can act as standby displays, eliminating the need for separate standbys.
Garmin has updated the user interface in G3000 Prime to deliver an even more intuitive and user-friendly experience. An example of this is linked views, which allows pilots to see how a change in the secondary display affects the flight plan, for example, previewing the various options for an arrival procedure at the destination.
Another key interface change is the adoption of the radial menu from the Garmin Pilot app, which pops up when touching a map view on a primary display. All control features can be accessed on a window in any display, and the displays are designed so a pilot can rest a hand on the display while touching another area, or two pilots can interact with separate windows on one display at the same time.
The G3000 Prime touchscreens are all capacitive touch, which gives users a more positive response. This compares to the G3000/G5000 touchscreen controllers' infrared touchscreens.
G3000 Prime users will also notice there is no more concentric knob, which has been a Garmin feature for decades. But knobs and buttons are available on the GCU 315 panel, and Prime even can have a rotating selector knob similar to automotive entertainment system applications.
Another technology development by Garmin is its new head-up display (HUD), which is certified in the Textron Aviation Citation Longitude. In the Longitude, the GHD 2100 HUD is matched with an Elbit multi-spectral camera system to provide enhanced flight vision system features, as well as combined vision system overlays of infrared and synthetic vision system imagery.
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