For the past couple of years the market has been speculating on what comes after Garmin’s aging G3X Touch avionics system. No, it’s not a G4X (that’s too cliche) but instead, the AXIS suite, named partly to recognize Garmin’s Team X engineering powerhouse. Plus, since the AXIS has built-in IFR GPS, VHF navcomms, and a high-end audio panel, it essentially eliminates the traditional radio stack—making it the center of the panel that all of the axes revolve around.
Available for Part 23 Class I/II GA airplanes, plus experimentals and light sport models, AXIS has impressively crisp 11.6-inch touch displays (and future 8-inch screens), Garmin’s Runway Occupancy Awareness alerting system, improved SVT synthetic vision, and variety of other features that trickle down from Garmin’s higher-end integrated avionics systems, including the G1000 Xi and G3000 Prime for business jets.
We spent some time at Garmin’s headquarters and strapped into the company Beech Baron with Jessica Koss for this system demo, while Garmin’s Brian Plank talked through the redesign and the architecture.
