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Garmin’s G600(TM) Receives Certification, Deliveries Begin

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News, Commercial 

July 28, 2008

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OLATHE, Kan., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Garmin International
Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in satellite
navigation, announced today that it has received FAA Approved Model List
Supplemental Type Certification with an Approved Model List (AML STC) for
the G600, a revolutionary new avionics suite designed for the retrofit and
forward fit avionics market. The FAA’s approval allows the G600 to be
installed in 785 different makes and models of normal and utility category
aircraft, including twin combustion engine and turbo-prop engine aircraft
with a certification weight up to 12,500 lbs.

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Garmin’s G600 incorporates two individual displays — a PFD and MFD —
in a customized package designed for easy retrofit installation. The G600
combines primary flight data including attitude and air data with
navigation, weather, terrain and traffic data displayed in an intuitive
pictorial format on dual LCD displays. This large, user-friendly
presentation allows pilots to quickly and efficiently scan the data so that
they can stay ahead of the aircraft during all phases of flight.

“Some of the biggest benefits of the G600 are very difficult to
describe with traditional marketing specs,” said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice
president of marketing. “Once a pilot sits in a G600 equipped aircraft,
they’ll be amazed at the situational awareness that comes from having the
PFD and MFD directly in front of the left seat. The G600 is the first time
pilots have such a large MFD available in their primary field of view.”

The G600 is designed to integrate with Garmin’s panel mount WAAS GPS
products. It replaces traditional mechanical gyroscopic flight instruments
with Garmin’s solid state Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) that
has superior reliability and accuracy, and features rapid alignment while
moving, including in-flight dynamic restarts. The PFD display increases the
pilot’s attitude indication by over 50 percent over a traditional 3-inch
attitude indicator. The system is certified to interface with most general
aviation autopilots acting as a navigation source selector and providing
GPS horizontal steering data enabling the autopilot to fly arcs, procedure
turns, and holding patterns. Additional features like altitude pre-selector
and flight director are available in a select number of autopilots.

The G600’s size (10″w x 6.7″h) allows for easy installation into the
existing instrument panel in most aircraft. The system is designed to take
the space that is currently occupied by the basic “T” or six-pack of
instruments (attitude, airspeed, altitude, vertical speed, turn coordinator
and directional gyro).

The MFD provides pilots with a clear, concise picture of where they are
relative to terrain, airspace, weather, and traffic. Garmin’s popular
SafeTaxi(R) is a standard feature displayed on the MFD. SafeTaxi provides
pilots with detailed diagrams of over 850 airports so they can navigate
unfamiliar taxiways with ease. This feature identifies runways, taxiways,
and structures, and are geo-referenced to the aircraft’s exact position on
the field. Garmin FliteCharts(R) is also standard and it allows pilots to
quickly find and view all NACO Departure Procedures (DP), Standard Terminal
Arrival Routes (STARs), approach charts, and airport diagrams on the MFD.
Pilots may also select the optional ChartView, an electronic version of
Jeppesen’s extensive library of charts and airport diagrams.

Datalink weather is also available as an option via XM WX Satellite
Weather(TM) (U.S. only) through Garmin’s GDL(R) 69 or GDL 69A. Graphical
weather depictions of NEXRAD, METARs, TAFs, TFRs, winds aloft, echo tops,
precipitation type at the surface, lightning strikes, storm-cell data,
AIRMETs, and SIGMETs can be received and displayed on the G600 so that
pilots can make informed navigation decisions. The weather data may be
overlaid on map databases. The G600 also provides a user interface for the
more than 170 channels of XM audio.

The G600 is available now at a suggested retail price of $29,995. It
includes the GDU 620 display/control unit, GRS 77 AHRS, GDC 74A digital air
data computer, GMU 44 tri-axial magnetometer, GTP 59 temp probe, and the
required leveling brackets.

About Garmin International Inc.

Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq:
GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation. Since 1989, this group of
companies has designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation,
communication and information devices and applications — most of which are
enabled by GPS technology. Garmin’s products serve automotive, mobile,
wireless, outdoor recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM applications.
Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal
subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United
Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin’s virtual pressroom at
http://www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department
at 913-397-8200. Garmin, SafeTaxi, FliteCharts, and GDL are registered
trademarks, and G600, GRS 77, GDC 74, GMU 44, and GTP 59 are trademarks, of
Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.

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