Big world on a small screen

摘要

Aspen Avionics is taking GPS-derived synthetic vision to the small screen. Unlike competitors Garmin and Avidyne, which use bigger PFD screens to show colorful and highly accurate representations of terrain and traffic, Aspen is placing the same information on its relatively small Evolution PFD/MFD. And the price for Aspen's FAA-certi-fied product isn't as large, either. Aspen plans to charge $3,000 for the software update that adds synthetic vision, compared to $5,000 for the Garmin G500 and $10,000 for Avidyne's planned Entegra R9 SVS.