Stanley777 Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Hi everyone, I am confused as to what instrument Garmin is referring. Let me elaborate. As we know, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) typically consists of a primary flight display (PFD), a multi-function display (MFD), and an engine-indicating and crew-alerting system (EICAS). In FS2020, for example, the Cessna C172 uses a Garmin G1000. To what does that refer -- the PFD, the MFD, the EICAS, or all three? Similarly, the TBM 930 uses a Garmin G3000. Does that refer to all aspects of the EFIS, or only some of them? Thank you. Stanley Intel Core i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | Dell U2717D monitor | Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X Total available graphics memory: 24534 MB; Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB; System video memory: 0 MB; Shared system memory: 16342 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) In FS2020, for example, the Cessna C172 uses a Garmin G1000. To what does that refer -- the PFD, the MFD, the EICAS, or all three? It's all three, the EICAS is part of the MFD display. Garmin is the manufacturer of the avionics system. The G1000 (in the C172 for example), the G3000 (as in the TBM930) and the G5000 (as in the Citation Longitude) have the same two basic displays, but the later models feature touch screen technology and additional touchscreen control pads. There's a pretty good explanation of the G1000 on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmin_G1000 If you'd like to compare the sim version with the real thing, Garmin's website has all the info and training videos too: https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/p/6420 Edited October 10, 2020 by tiger1962 Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley777 Posted October 10, 2020 Author Share Posted October 10, 2020 Thank you, Tim. Your response was most instructive, and so was the reference to the Wikipedia article. Intel Core i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | Dell U2717D monitor | Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X Total available graphics memory: 24534 MB; Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB; System video memory: 0 MB; Shared system memory: 16342 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkl122 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Here’s a G1000 video that may be of interest. Enjoy. -Ron Edited October 11, 2020 by rkl122 FS 2020 deluxe; SDK to match; Win10 Pro x64; i7/8700K(3.4 GHz); 16G DDR4, 3200; Gtx 1080; M.2, 1TB; Saitek X52; 23" LCD, native res=1920x1080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyguy51 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Wait, I thought EFIS was Electronic Flight INFORMATION System and was the small panel on airliners with the alphanumeric keypad that their flight plan was loaded on and accessed with! Gigabyte Aorus X370 Gaming 5 MB, Intel i7-8700K @ 4.8Ghz, 32Gb Corsair 3200Mhz, Gigabyte GTX1070Ti, Corsair H115i AIO Adata 480Gb NVME M.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TseTse Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Wait, I thought EFIS was Electronic Flight INFORMATION System and was the small panel on airliners with the alphanumeric keypad that their flight plan was loaded on and accessed with! Different people tend to call them different things, so IMO "Instrument" and "Information" are both acceptable. As for the screen/keypad combination on airliners - they're called the "CDU" for "Control/Display Unit" or, if you ask Airbus, the MCDU where the M means "Multifunction". The CDU/MCDU(s) form a part of a larger system called the FMS (Flight Management System) which, from a technical perspective, involves the CDU/MCDU and an array of navigational equipment such as Nav/GPS receivers, flight guidance computers, database storage, etc. http://i.imgur.com/iMDlMAv.jpg TseTse i5-9600K @ 3.7~4.5GHz | RTX2060 Super 8GB | 32GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB Samsung 840EVO | Z390 Chipset | Windows 10 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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