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Garmin’s integrated avionics system, the G1000.
Rockwell Collins
Rockwell Collins has a few options for King Air owners/ operators depending on what you presently have. If you are currently operating a Collins Pro Line 21 system, they offer several updates and enhancements like ADS-B, Datalink weather, charts and many other updates if you don’t currently have them. Pricing varies depending on the number and scope of the updates needed.
One upcoming solution for existing Pro Line 21 cockpits and new production King Airs is the Pro Line Fusion, which features commercial aviation’s first touchscreen PFDs, and was just announced as becoming standard on all new production King Air 350i/ER, 250 and C90GTx models. It is still being integrated into
Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line 21 avionics is a fully integrated system.
production and will start with the King Air 250 later this year. Rockwell Collins is also offering a retrofit option on the existing Pro Line 21 King Airs to provide the Pro Line Fusion, which would give operators an integrated upgrade solution.
If you don’t have Pro Line 21, but have Collins Pro Line II in a King Air 350, you can upgrade to Pro Line Fusion. Pro Line Fusion in a Pro Line II-equipped King Air 350 includes three new 14" touchscreen displays (that eliminates the CRT obsolescence problem), new GPS navigator with WAAS/LPV, synthetic vision, charts, weather and ADS-B compliance. This non-integrated upgrade retains the current autopilot, nav, comms, audio system and weather radar. This system is still under certification and final pricing has not been
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