Diamond’s DA40 Star has just enough room for the G1000’s two screens. Future versions will incorporate autopilot into the integrated mix.

by Paul Bertorelli

We’ll forgive you a Pavlovian response to the pictures on these pages. But there’s no point in drooling over them, it’ll just smear the ink and obscure the intriguing details. In any case, unless you’re buying a new airplane, it’ll be awhile before you can get your mitts on Garmin’s new integrated primary flight display, the G1000.

In our Oshkosh coverage in the September, 2003, issue, we offered a sneak peek at the G1000, imagining that it would be many months if not a few years before it would be available in anything less than a Cessna Mustang mini-jet. Once again, the relentless march of technological progress has proved…