GH3100 ESIS
A very popular Electronic Standby Instrument System (ESIS) is the GH3100 produced by L3.
FlightAhead has developed high fidelity software to simulate the GH3100. This application runs on Microsoft Windows on PC or on Linux (Raspbian) on Raspberry Pi.
Euramec designed and produces a fully integrated stand-alone hardware instrument in which FlightAhead’s GH3100 software is seamlessly embedded.
System
When provided with power, the GH3100 application boots up like the real instrument.
It can be configured to display the aircraft name and it keeps track of the elapsed operating time, i.e. the number of hours it has been used.
The brightness of the display can be adjusted.
Multiple display colour scheme’s exist for the real instrument, and they can also be configured for the simulated GH3100 application.
Flight data
The GH3100 application receives the flight data (Pitch, Roll, Speed, Mach, Altitude, Vertical Speed, Heading) as UDP packets over the LAN and displays it.
Your own application can send flight data, or in case you are using X-Plane we provide an X-Plane plugin the does that for you. The X-Plane plugin is generic and works for any type of aircraft in X-Plane.
Baro reference
Baro reference pressure can be set with adjustment of the Baro Altitude.
Through the menu the baro ref unit can be set to Mbar or InHg.
The baro reference can be set to Standard (STD) by pushing the encoder.
Failure flags
For all the flight data parameters a failure flag can be set in case the data is invalid.
NAV Radio
The signals of multiple NAV Radios (ILS or VOR) can be send to the GH3100 application.
Through the Menu the pilot can select which NAV radio source he wants to display on screen.
Here you see an ILS approach where LOC Dev, G/S Dev, Course and Distance are displayed, as well as the marker indications (when overflying OM, MM, IM)
Test server application
A handy test server application is also available (and can be provided in source code) to test the communication and send test flight data to the GH3100 application.