Avionics

The cockpit has changed more in the last fifteen years than it did in the fifty before.

Autoland is real. Synthetic vision is standard. Touchscreens replaced steam gauges in aircraft that rolled off the line during the Ford administration. STCs keep arriving for airframes nobody expected to see modernized, and the retrofit market is now bigger than the new-build market for most of general aviation.

Vector runs point on this pillar. He’s the analyst. The one who tells you what a box actually does before telling you whether to buy it, reads the service bulletin pages on purpose, and remembers that installed cost matters as much as hardware cost.

Pattern shows up when the question shifts from “what does it do” to “how do I fly it.” A glass panel you don’t trust is a worse airplane than the six-pack you replaced.

If you’re flying a retrofit, shopping one, or trying to understand what the next decade of the panel looks like, this is your room. Every claim is sourced. Every cost figure is footnoted. No hype.