“Garmin G3000 PRIME Avionics Features in BETA Technologies Production Aircraft”

After BETA Tech­nolo­gies laud­ed last week, a suc­cess­ful flight of its first ALIA CTOL from the Ver­mont Pro­duc­tion Line, the com­pa­ny has added news that this air­craft fea­tures Garmin’s most inte­grat­ed avion­ics flight deck yet — The G3000 PRIME, reports a press release.

This piece of kit “rede­fines the flight deck expe­ri­ence for pilots, with sleek, intu­itive, touch­screen dis­plays,” explains the release. “It offers a state-of-the-art user inter­face and advanced con­nec­tiv­i­ty, lever­ag­ing cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies that can enhance both safe­ty and effi­cien­cy of oper­a­tions, while min­imis­ing pilot work­load across all phas­es of flight.” And then points out, “The G3000 PRIME hard­ware is already FAA Tech­ni­cal Stan­dard Order (TSO) cer­ti­fied.” 

Alex Ben­nett, Senior Direc­tor of Avi­a­tion Pro­grams & OEM Sales at Garmin, com­ment­ed, “Built with a state-of-the-art user inter­face and high­ly flex­i­ble archi­tec­ture, G3000 PRIME is per­fect to sup­port BETA’s rev­o­lu­tion­ary ALIA air­craft and their mis­sion towards bring­ing a sus­tain­able avi­a­tion solu­tion to the mar­ket. It is the first elec­tric air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er to incor­po­rate this in the advanced air mobil­i­ty mar­ket.”

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David Ger­s­tle, BETA’s Avion­ics Team Lead, blogged on the Garmin web­site: “Here at BETA, we often think of the avion­ics as the win­dow into the soul of an air­plane. Avion­ics allow the pilot to mon­i­tor the heart­beat of the air­craft, sync­ing with every sys­tem and guid­ing every move. The inter­face helps man­age crit­i­cal sys­tems such as the elec­tric motor, the high volt­age bat­ter­ies, and the fly-by-wire con­trol sys­tem. It’s also a life­line to the out­side world, host­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions and nav­i­ga­tion func­tions so the pilot can talk to ATC or find the clos­est air­port in the event of bad weath­er or an emer­gency.”

He con­tin­ued, “We’re proud of what we’ve devel­oped with Garmin. It’s an amaz­ing adap­ta­tion of exist­ing func­tion­al­i­ty, made to fit into our elec­tric air­plane.”

Chris Caputo, BETA’s Direc­tor of Flight Oper­a­tions, remarked, “Our team has designed ALIA to be an air­craft for pilots. That means opti­mis­ing the vehi­cle inter­face for the best flight expe­ri­ence pos­si­ble. Garmin has been push­ing avion­ics and avi­a­tion for­ward for decades and we’re thrilled to bring this gold stan­dard to the AAM indus­try.”

Mean­while, BETA con­tin­ues to ramp up pro­duc­tion efforts at its close to 200,000 sq. ft man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in South Burling­ton, as it con­tin­ues to progress toward cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, cus­tomer deliv­er­ies and in-mar­ket oper­a­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.beta.team/

(Images: BETA Tech­nolo­gies)

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