The AdViz glass cockpit retrofit, developed by Innovative Solutions & Support of Exton, Pa., replaces aging flight instruments on Citation 500, 550, S550 and 560 aircraft. The package is available as either two or three 10.4-inch display units that provide enhanced situational awareness, increased functionality, reduced crew workload and weight savings. Options include Jeppesen e-Charts, XM Satellite Weather, and the display of enhanced vision systems and wide area augmentation system data.

Glass cockpit (TV style displays) screens are a part of the flight information system, it also includes Air Data Computers, Attitude and Heading Reference computers, symbol generators (that tell the screen’s what to display), Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System and a host of other sub-systems that all come together to give the pilots a much better picture of what is happening to and around the aircraft. They are much more reliable, lighter and efficient than the old “steam” gages they replace.

A glass cockpit contains at least two tv links or pc like viewing screens that are used to display flight information previously displayed by the standard “six-pack” of flight instruments, mainly the Airspeed Indicator, Altimeter, Artificial Horizon, Turn and Bank Indicator, Directional Gyro/HSI and the Vertical Speed Indicator.

The first screen is right in front of the pilot and is usually referred to as the Primary Flight Display (PFD), which is the screen that is replacing those six previously mentioned flight instruments. The second screen, usually placed to the right of the first one is the Multifunctional Display (MFD). This screen is sometimes referred to as the Multi-Frustration Display. This is the display that shows the moving map displays, engine instruments, traffic, weather and even approach plates and instrument charts

Modern “glass cockpits” like those in the Boeing 777, the F-117 stealth fighter and Shuttle Atlantis represent a revolution in the way cockpits for aircraft and spacecraft are designed and built today. The first hints of this revolution appeared in the 1970s when flight-worthy cathode ray tube (CRT) screens began to replace a few of the electromechanical displays, gauges and instruments that had served so well for so long. These new “glass” instruments, as few and as primitive as they were, gave the cockpit a distinctly different look and suggested the name, “glass cockpit.”

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