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    A glass cockpit is an aircraft cockpit that features an array of electronic (digital) flight instrument displays, typically large LCD screens, rather than...
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  • side. In some commercial airliners (i.e.: Airbus—which features the glass cockpit concept) both pilots use a side-stick located on the outboard side,...
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    aviation (GA) industry, it became the first light aircraft with a full glass cockpit. The SR22 series has been the world's best-selling GA airplane every...
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    systems. Key trends include: Glass Cockpits: Traditional analog gauges are being replaced by fully integrated glass cockpit displays, providing pilots with...
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    Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such...
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    range of the original model, as well as other improvements such as a glass cockpit. By 2016, in excess of 1,200 L-410s had been constructed while in excess...
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    collected several times per second; the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) preserves the recent history of the sounds in the cockpit, including the conversation of the...
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    in 1997, Boeing upgraded many in-service DC-10s as the MD-10 with a glass cockpit that eliminated the need for a flight engineer. In February 2014, the...
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    been developed. Typical updates have included new avionics, such as a glass cockpit, and the adoption of newer engine versions to deliver enhanced performance...
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  • which aircrew manage the modern Glass cockpit and thus interface with the aircraft avionics. Prior to the 1970s, cockpits did not typically use any electronic...
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