If you’re a fan of The Military Channel, you will have seen video shot through the head-up display in a modern fighter, say an F-16 or an F-18. Paste a blue-and-brown background on that and move it off the canopy and into the center of the panel and that’s a good approximation of what it’s like to fly the Chelton FlightLogic EFIS. And that’s to say it’s entirely different from the Garmin G1000 and Avidyne’s Entegra.

Lloyd Zand’s Mooney has the most sensible EFIS installation we’ve seen. Back-up instruments are well in view and all electric, with dual batteries and alternators.

Owner Lloyd Zand, whose Miami-based Mooney PFM conversion we flew for this report, is right when he describes the FlightLogic as more dynamic than either of the other two systems, which concentrate computing power on…