The "glass cockpit," introduced by the Boeing 767 in the 1980s, revolutionized aviation by replacing traditional round gauges with computerized, colorized graphical displays like Primary Flight ...

Better visual feedback via an aircraft's primary flight display (PFD) of what the autopilot/flight management system (FMS) is doing reduces the likelihood of pilot mistakes when their workload is high ...

Two brand-new primary flight display systems have been unveiled at Oshkosh by Avidyne. The Lincoln MA-based company is showing an eight-inch primary flight display system and a large 15-inch display ...

A view of Alaska through a Gulfstream G450 HUD. Photo credit: Mike Keller) Years ago, in a Gulfstream G450 recurrent, I was surprised by a simulator instructor’s preflight briefing because he added a ...

It doesn’t much matter whether Boeing intended to set off a revolution in cockpit instrumentation when it delivered the first 767 in the early 1980s. That, of course, was the result when the new ...