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CIRRUS Primary
Flight Display reduces workload, dramatically increases situational
awareness
The CIRRUS PFD is part of the CIRRUS “glass
cockpit,” or
advanced integrated flight deck system. This revolutionary advancement
is similar to the integrated flight deck systems found in virtually
all new air-transport and high-end business jet aircraft. CIRRUS
was the first to incorporate the concept into a general aviation
airplane.
The
PFD is a 10.4-inch diagonal, high-resolution, sunlight-readable,
full-color flat panel liquid display. It integrates
primary flight
instrumentation into one easy-to-read pictorial display within
your primary field of view. The PFD includes attitude direction
indicator (EADI), horizontal situation indicator (EHSI), altitude,
airspeed and vertical airspeed, as well as a pilot-selectable moving
map presentation of flight plan data and an RMI pointer.
The CIRRUS PFD reduces your workload
and dramatically increases your situational awareness. Rather than
constantly scanning six
different three-inch analog displays, you now quickly scan one
large display. Information is magnified and simplified. You can
see small changes and adjust to them more quickly. You’re
able to maintain better control and safer flight of your airplane
in Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) conditions.
A
pilot learning to fly IFR with conventional instrumentation typically
has a difficult time maintaining
altitude and headings because of the complexities of six-pack scan and crosscheck.
CIRRUS finds that pilots very quickly adapt to the PFD’s large pictorial
display. The same pilot who is challenged by six-pack flying during the first
few times in IFR conditions has a much easier time maintaining altitude and
heading with the PFD.
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