A representative G3X Touch panel layout, shown for illustration.
Not a fleet of decades-old dial gauges. Every RV-12iS in our fleet flies with the same dual Garmin G3X Touch glass cockpit you'd expect to find in a modern regional aircraft — because the habits you build on day one are the habits you'll fly with for the rest of your career.
A representative G3X Touch panel layout, shown for illustration.
A dedicated Primary Flight Display (attitude, airspeed, altitude, heading) and Multi-Function Display (moving map, charts, traffic) — the same split-panel logic you'll fly with in a regional jet, not a single combined dial you'll have to unlearn.
A dedicated, physical mode controller for heading, altitude, and vertical speed — real automation management from your first cross-country, not a button you discover exists during your commercial checkride prep.
A fully independent backup attitude, airspeed, and altitude display, powered separately from the main displays — genuine electrical redundancy you actually train on, not a syllabus line item you read about once.
Oil pressure, oil temperature, fuel flow, CHT, and EGT displayed digitally, integrated directly into the flight displays — no analog gauges to misread under pressure, no separate scan to memorize.
Real-time traffic and weather displayed directly on the map — the same situational awareness tools you'll rely on for the rest of your career, built into your very first solo cross-country.
Every aircraft in our fleet is configured identically. The panel you solo in is the panel you take your checkride in — no surprises, no "well, that one's a little different."
Every major airline flight deck is built around the same fundamentals you'll find in our fleet: redundant instrumentation, dedicated automation controls, and a real division between primary flight data and situational awareness. Training on a modern panel from your very first hour means the transition to a regional jet is a change in scale — not a change in concept.