Garmin GTN 750

[RogerWilco7273]

The GTN 750 with TCAD (TCAS) is a wonderful product to have for flight sim! Flight1 offers this product for the other sims and it would be great to have as an option in MSFS 2020 as either an In-Panel option, or a in cockpit VR object we could place where we would like.

AviTab is another option, but the features of the GTN. The TCAD/TCAS and other options are so much better, frequencies, closest airports, VOR’s, WX, ETC. You name it, it does it!

And thank you for such a great Sim!

[N6722C]

Agreed … would love to see some basic TCAS type features in MSFS,

If MSFS GPS system do not have it yst, and it is technically possible, I suspect we will see it 1st in the GNS530 Mod.

For Reference:

TCAS – Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems
are recognized internationally as ACAS – Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems. These active interrogating systems include two sub categories: TCAS I issues real-time traffic alerts (TA) and is typically installed on Turboprop aircraft and smaller jets. TCAS II issues traffic alerts (TA) and resolution advisories (RA) and is usually found on larger aircraft.

TAS – Traffic Advisory System
is a TSO approved active interrogating system similar to TCAS I but available at a considerably lower prices. TAS products are available from Garmin, Avidyne, L3 Avionics and Honeywell. These systems can be interfaced to display traffic on a wide variety of installed electronic display systems.

TCAD – Traffic Collision Alert Device:
This passive installed system is no longer in production but it was the first affordable traffic system for GA.

PCAS – Portable Collision Avoidance Systems:
These passive non-interrogating portable devices provide traffic awareness at a budget price. They can be interfaced to display traffic on other portable devices.

TIS – Traffic Information System:
Installation of a mode S transponder will enable the traffic data link service offered by select ATC radar facilities in theUnited States. TIS systems have an inherent delay of 5 to 15 seconds due sweeping of the ATC radar.

[xflightest]

Yes. The GTN 750 would be a great add on!

[Magic6420]

The GTN as an FSX add on is a really sophisticated and thoroughly competent piece of kit. I don’t go anywhere without it and it is the most incredible add on in 14 years of the sim, to me anyway. It would be a real let down if it came to MSFS with the functionality displayed by the rest of the Asobo avionics. It isnt something to rush for the sake of a quick fix, though I can’t wait until we do get it.

[Mauleflyer]

We definitely need the GTN 650/750. It is very common Nav/Com in airplanes today. It is essential for real world training!

[Erniehalter]

GTN 650 or 750 please.

[Magic6420]

With only 39 votes this isnt going to get far and I think I know why. As a general piece of avionics, as far as I know, only Flight 1 and Reality XP released it to other sims. God, they put some work into this too. Therefore, only a fairly small percentage of FS users ever owned it (it wasn’t cheap) and have seen the miracles it does on not just a daily, or even hourly basis. The 750 is the beating heart of any aircraft you couple it to. What is really needed in my book anyway, is for Garmin to seize the opportunity and take a lead here. It would make a partnership something useful to them and not just leave the user base with that “Asobo” feel to one of their finest products.

Going to lie down for a while…

[RogerWilco7273]

I couldn’t agree more my friend.

[StatesideSiren4]

Any updates here? Any rumors? The GNS units are honestly so old they’re just pointless. We really need the GTNs!

[RogerWilco7273]

Thank you for keeping this post alive! I agree, we really need this as atleast an option to purchase.

[xflightest]

Imagine using your motion controller in VR to press the touch screen .

[LovesickChief13]

Loved it in P3D. I slapped that bad boy into any plane that would have it. Miss it very much.

[RogerWilco7273]

Check this out my fellow GTN 750 lovers!!!

PMS50 GTN750 Project

First picture of this project. New pictures to come in the next few days. [gtn750]

[CptLucky8]

@RogerWilco7273

The TCAD/TCAS and other options are so much better, frequencies, closest airports, VOR’s, WX, ETC. You name it, it does it!

I’ve just posted this about GTN and TCAS you might find helpful:

@CptLucky8

Displaying other aircraft icons around you, like you’d typically find in gauges having a “TCAS” mode, is not, but really not, what a TCAS is all about, and actually I personally believe this is not helping at all.

The TCAS is primarily sensing aircraft around you, both direction and distance, based on a few basic signals (I’m not talking about ADSB here but more ‘traditional’ TCAS devices). With this information, and many other sensors aboard your aircraft, it will compute and extrapolate trajectories in 3D space and check whether any could be closing-in your own trajectory.

One important point to understand is that it is perfectly fine having aircraft passing around you, as long as their trajectory is not entering a “bubble”, and the bubble size and priority depends on many other factors, related to the phase of flight (near the ground, high in the sky, your aircraft performance, its climb performance etc…). Only when a possible conflict arises, the TCAS will provide appropriate alerts, and eventually resolution advisories. In the latter case, the system can work standalone or in tandem with the other target in order to give both pilots diverging resolution advisories (one climbing and the other descending, but it could be one flying level and the other climbing more).

The Reality XP GTN and GNS V2 are actually offering a TCAD option. In the real world, you’d typically use a Ryan TCAD 9900BX with the GTN (9900B with the GNS). The RXP GPS add-ons include a complete simulation of the Ryan TCAD device and you can change its operating modes directly on the GTN screen for example, with the same menus, symbology, and feature set you’d get with the real devices.

The Ryan TCAD simulation which is embedded in the GTN or the GNS V2 is actually running our TCAS II Mark 7 simulation internally, in TA mode, so that it provides an authentic traffic alerting capability. This is the same TCAS device you’d find in airliners and it is delivering the same level of accuracy and operation as the real deal. In effect, the Reality XP TCAS II Mark 7 simulation is actually passing the official 250 TSIM tests (one industry standard for validating TCAS algorithms).

So back to the subject, TCAS is not just displaying aircraft moving around you on a map, it is much more than this, and if this topic is about displaying aircraft on the map page, it is important to understand this is not TCAS at all and although it would be good looking in a YT video, it is not the level of simulation feature you might want in a simulator for simmers.

[RogerWilco7273]

Honestly, I have no idea the point you are attempting to make. I really appreciate the GTN 750 and ALL of it’s features. As do thousands of other flight sim enthusiasts. Not just for traffic.

I myself and hundreds of others would like some sort of TCAS.
And as far as looking good in YT videos… I wouldn’t know, never done it, and no desire to.

[CptLucky8]

@RogerWilco7273 I’m just agreeing with you!

It happens I just wrote about the GTN 750 TCAS implementation in the topic which is requesting Microsoft/Asobo to add TCAS feature in the default aircraft, and I’m explaining how an authentic TCAS is much more complex than just displaying aircraft icons in a map page. Since this topic is about the GTN 750, I just linked to this information which might be of interest to those wondering about GTN 750 TCAS feature, and wanting to know how authentic it is. I’m not quoting you because I’m arguing with you, I’m quoting you to make a reference to the subject matter only.

[FiftiethClover0]

RealityXP for X-plane uses the Garmin Win10 650/750 simulator. It would be great to have the same integration in FS, including in-panel and pop-out.

[Mauleflyer]

Who is working on it and when will it be available?

[RogerWilco7273]

It looks like late April Beta will be released.

PMS50 GTN750 Project

First picture of this project. New pictures to come in the next few days. [gtn750]