What’s It Doing Now? Making Instrument Standardization A Priority

Credit: Honeywell
Decades ago, we were flying an FMS demonstration in a Beech King Air with conventional analog flight instruments, a basic weather radar and an analog autopilot. The purpose of the demo was to show off the advanced capabilities of the FMS, including its ability to automatically transition from the en...
Fred George

Fred formerly was senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

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