11 February 2004
Mooney has just announced it is to offer Garmin’s G1000 glass cockpit as an option in its new Ovation2 (flight-tested in FLYER this issue) and Bravo models.
The certification programme is currently underway and expected to be complete by mid-summer. Deliveries are expected to begin in the third quarter of this year.
“This is a project we have been working on for two years,” said Mooney Airplane Company President Nelson Happy. “We compared and evaluated all potential competitive products and reached the conclusion that the Garmin G1000 was the right product for us and for our customers. The announcement we are making now is the result of years of work and thousands of hours of engineering effort.”
Nicolas Chabbert, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales, added: “We are extremely excited about our ability to offer the best of both worlds in panel technology. The DX technology panel retains a reliable, accurate and proven presentation of data for the classic sense of flying. The GX Glass flightdeck, with its large screen displays and digital presentation of data, will meet all the requirements of the new generation of flying enthusiasts for whom the very latest in technology is a must.
“The G1000 is the most advanced flightdeck package available in a single-engine piston aircraft today. It integrates all primary flight, navigation, communication, terrain, traffic, weather and engine data on two large 10.4 inch high resolution, glass, displays. The system will ease pilot workload and offers a new level of situational awareness during all phases of flight.”
For a review of the Garmin G1000 see FLYER, January 2004.
Further details at <a href=”http://www.mooney.com” target=”_blank”>Mooney Aircraft Company</a>
