Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Aircraft that support the EIS TXi displays include the Cessna Conquest 441 with TPE331-10N engines and the Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 Solitaire and MU-2B-60 Marquise with TPE331-10 engines. Additionally, the software update makes the EIS arc gauges available on Piaggio Avanti P.180 turboprops, which are powered by Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6 engines.
The arc gauges feature a half-arc format instead of the previous round gauges. Arc gauges offer the advantage that the shape allows for a much larger size and increases the size of the digital readout indications by 50%.
Customers interested in v3.72 can contact Garmin dealers for the upgrade. In addition to the EIS changes, the software upgrade adds many new features, fixes, and updates for the TXi series displays (G500H, G500, G600, G700). Some of these include changing the synthetic vision aspect ratio from 0.8 to 1.0 and upgrading the display of the heading from DAL B to DAL A for the G700 TXi.

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Mitsubishi MU-2 Marquise (MU-2B-60)

Mitsubishi MU-2 Solitaire (MU-2B-40)

Cessna Conquest I and II

Piaggio P.180

Garmin

Cessna

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