Garmin G5

The GARMIN G5 electronic flight instrument

the Garmin G5 is a great flight instrument that is cappable of showing a couple of information on one single display.

• Attitude (artificial Horizon)
  • Pitch
  • Bank
• PLANE HEADING DEGREES MAGNETIC
• Altitude
• Indicated Air Speed (IAS)
• Groundspeed (GS)
• Barometric Pressure
• Indicated Altitude
• Vertical Speed
• Turn and slip indicator
• NAV1 Glideslope (GSI)
• NAV1 Course Deviation Indicator (CDI)
• AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK
• AUTOPILOT HEADING LOCK DIRECTION
• AUTOPILOT ALTITUDE LOCK
• AUTOPILOT ALTITUDE

Configuration

within the config.json you can configure the speed indicators using the following style:

  "AIRSPEED_INDICATED": {
    "speedBands": [
      {
        "color": "green",
        "min": 66,
        "max": 178,
        "width": 5
      },
      {
        "color": "white",
        "min": 60,
        "max": 91,
        "width": 1.5
      },
      {
        "color": "yellow",
        "min": 129,
        "max": 178.5,
        "width": 5
      },
      {
        "color": "#ff0000",
        "min": 153,
        "max": 178,
        "width": 3
      },
      {
        "color": "red",
        "min": 178,
        "max": 200,
        "width": 20
      }
    ],
    "markers": [
      {
        "type": "vne",
        "value": 178
      },
      {
        "type": "Y",
        "value": 80
      },
      {
        "type": "R",
        "value": 69
      },
      {
        "type": "TO",
        "value": 70
      }
    ]
  }

As "speedBands" and "markers" are arrays, you can define of course how many and "named" markers (and speedBands) if you like. So if you know the X-Speed for the best angle of climb you can just add the marker if you like. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds for other options.

With this parameters you can set the colored ranges and markers being shown on your IAS-bar so that you have the corresponding hints always available without the need of remembering each aircraft speed, which is especially helpful when you fly multiple planes.

index.html - code

The Code to be added to the index.html is just:

<object id="Garmin-G5" data="../../standardgauges/Garmin-G5.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>