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PiperM700FuryDemoAirplane’sInteriorCabin▲▼
Sitting in the cockpit, you will im- mediately notice the Garmin G3000 Avionics Suite with dual GTC 575 Touchscreen Controllers. The GTC 575s are very intuitive and assist the pilot in manipulating the G3000, in- cluding the initialization process, loading flight plans, computing takeoff and landing data, altering the displays, changing radio frequen- cies, and more. On the far left sits the Garmin GI-275 standby indicator with digital attitude, heading, airspeed, and altitude information.
Looking around the cockpit a little more closely, you would notice that although everything is within reach and accessible to a single-pilot left- seat operation, the right seat also has plenty of access if you want the help or extra eyes of a copilot.
For me, the glare shield was a bit high and limited forward visibility to a thinner field of vision than I am used to. An advantage of this could be that there is more sun and glare protection overall, which can be a problem on other low-wing aircraft. Above the windshield is another set of switches, mainly pertaining to power, fuel pumps, heat, and lights, which gives a smaller plane like this a big jet feel.
turboprop engines coming to life. I thought that was a great idea until I realized none of us would ever pick up the phone as we would never inter- rupt one of aviation’s finest sounds.
As expected, the M700 had an ex- cellent engine start that was music to our ears before we put on our Bose noise-canceling headsets. Putting on the headsets reminded me of a ques- tion I later posed to the Piper team: Do cabin passengers typically wear headsets, or is it quiet enough in the back to go without them? The answer was both. Although the cabin is qui- eter than the cockpit, most passen- gers opt to wear headsets as having conversations without them is a bit of a stretch, and they would have to talk very loudly.
Piper M700 Fury Cabin Looking at the Cockpit
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