G501SP Basic System Overview

Integrate Your Cockpit

The G501SP puts a wealth of flight-critical data at your fingertips. Its glass flight deck presents flight instrumentation, navigation, weather, terrain, traffic and engine data on large-format, high-resolution displays. The simple, intuitive interface makes it easy to learn and navigate.

Sierra’s PMA-certified machine shop utilizes the latest in sophisticated waterjet cutting technology to custom-machine instrument panels to individual owner requirements. Using this high-precision cutting machine, Sierra’s technicians will customize the installation for your unique requirements, functionally blending the G501SP flight deck with your choice of optional instruments. Our CNC machining expertise means a perfect fit for both original and new avionics components, with virtually no additional finishing or adjustments.

The G501SP replaces traditional mechanical gyroscopic flight instruments with Garmin’s ultra reliable GRS77 Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS). AHRS provides accurate, digital output and referencing of your aircraft position, rate, vector and acceleration data. It’s even able to restart and properly reference itself while your aircraft is moving.

The sophisticated G501SP flight deck displays seamlessly integrate 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. For safer arrivals and departures, optional ChartView^™ — available through Jeppesen’s JeppView^™ subscription service — lets you overlay your aircraft’s position on the electronic approach chart to provide a visual crosscheck. Using information from the built-in terrain and U.S. obstacles databases, the system displays color coding to graphically alert you when proximity conflicts loom ahead. In addition, the G501SP can be augmented with optional Class-B Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) for an extra margin of safety in the air.

View your position on taxiways with SafeTaxi^®, a built-in database of over 850 U.S. airport diagrams. FliteCharts^®, an electronic version of the AeroNav database, lets you quickly find and view all NACO Departure Procedures (DP), Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs), approach charts and airport diagrams on the MFD.