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Flight Training Equipment

The following equipment is currently being used in the Commercial Aviation program:

DA40 Diamond Star

  • Engine: Lycoming O-360-A4D
  • Horsepower: 180 hp
  • Length: 26 ft 4 in
  • Height: 6 ft 6 in
  • Wing Span: 39 ft 2 in
  • Max. T/O Weight: 2,535 lbs
  • Fuel capacity, std: 40 gal
  • Fuel: AVGAS 100 LL
  • T/O distance, grd roll: 1,198 ft
  • Rate of climb, sea level: 900 ft/min
  • Cruise speed @ 75%: 134 ktas / 9.2 gal/hr
  • Max. demo crosswind: 20 kts
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DA 42 Twin Star

  • Engine: T.A.E. Centurion 2.0
  • Horsepower: 270 hp
  • Length: 26 ft 1 in
  • Height: 8 ft 2 in
  • Wing Span: 44 ft 6 in
  • Max. T/O Weight: 3,935 lbs
  • Fuel capacity, std: 50 gal
  • Fuel: Jet A1
  • T/O distance, grd roll: 1,130 ft
  • Rate of climb, sea level: 1280 ft/min
  • Cruise speed @ 80%: 172 ktas / 12.5 gal/hr total
  • Max. demo crosswind: 20 kts
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Frasca Diamond Flight Simulator

As part of the commitment to HCC students, Galvin offers advanced technology training in a new simulator from Frasca International featuring a 170-degree projected visual display with TruVision, SimulatorFrasca's family of high resolution textured visual systems and display configurations. TruVision provides the pilot with a realistic out-the-window scene, airports, surrounding terrain, all airborne environmental conditions with aircraft replicated glass cockpit. Custom databases and satellite technology provide extremely realistic scenery, authentic terrain and airport approach reality. The commitment to being an innovator focuses to instrument training is based on the Garmin G1000. The Frasca simulator provides a seamless transition from ground school course, to the cockpits of G-1000 equipped airplanes including the Diamond TwinStars, Diamond DA40s also have advanced glass cockpit avionics displays.

The fleet of aircraft is modern, high technology for training. All the aircraft in the fleet are instrument flight rated, and all are equipped with state-of-the-art approach grade GPS avionic stacks. All aircraft are equipped with the sensational Garmin G-1000 glass cockpits. Galvin has led the way in developing and implementing training programs for these aircraft, and in making them available to our students.

Garmin G1000 All-Glass Avionics Suite

Integrated Cockpit - All aircraft are Garmin G1000 equipped with an all-glass avionics suite for your training. The G1000 replaces traditional mechanical gyroscopic (round dial) flight instruments. G1000 puts a wealth of flight-critical data at your fingertips. Its glass cockpit presents flight instrumentation, navigation, weather, terrain, traffic and engine data on large-format, high-resolution displays. It is a seamless integrated package that makes flight information easier to scan and process. G1000's revolutionary design brings new levels of situational awareness, simplicity and safety to the cockpit.

G1000 seamlessly integrates built-in terrain and navigation databases, providing a clear, concise picture of where you are and where you’re heading. A Jeppesen® database supports onscreen navigation, communication and mapping functions uses information from the built-in terrain and U.S. obstacles databases, G1000 displays color coding to graphically alert you when proximity conflicts loom ahead.

The G1000 system aboard the Diamond aircraft boasts two 10.4-inch, high-definition LCDs. These active-matrix displays feature XGA resolution (1,024x768-pixel count) and are capable of presenting data in brilliant, sunlight-readable color.

The primary flight display (PFD) replaces traditional cockpit instruments and digitally integrates flight information on a single, large-format display for easier interpretation by the pilot. The PFD interfaces with Garmin’s innovative Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS), which provides accurate, digital output and referencing of your aircraft position, rate, vector and acceleration data and can self-align while the aircraft is in flight.

The multifunction display (MFD) puts all aircraft-systems monitoring and flight-planning functions at the pilot’s fingertips. The MFD paints a composite view of the aircraft’s environment, enhancing situational awareness and providing the pilot with all necessary information to make safe decisions during each phase of flight. Engine performance and situational data such as location, terrain, traffic, weather and airport information are all digitally depicted and can be easily interpreted at a glance on the large-format display.

Safety Feature - The integrated design and reversionary capabilities of the G1000 allow all flight-critical data to transfer seamlessly to a single display — in the unlikely event of a display failure — for added safety and peace of mind during flight.

Free Downloads - Students are encouraged to download Garmin G1000 instructional publications from: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/store/manual.jsp?product=010-G1000-00&cID=153&pID=6420