CiES and Garmin Perspective+ To Provide Advanced Situational Awareness, Precise Fuel Management
CiES has announced that legacy Cirrus G3 Vision Jet aircraft can achieve a meaningful step forward in fuel awareness through the Garmin Perspective+ upgrade, creating a clear modernization pathway from legacy indication to a more integrated, fully monitored cockpit fuel-state architecture.
In G3 aircraft, analog senders supported a conventional configuration with only gauge-based low-fuel warning. Fuel quantity (file photo) was available to the pilot, but it remained largely isolated from the avionics workflow. With CiES, that changes. By bringing fuel quantity into Garmin’s crew-alerting-system (CAS) through fail-evident design and digital communication, CiES enables a fully monitored fuel state and materially improved CAS messaging. The result is a more integrated fuel awareness model that supports earlier recognition, better messaging, and stronger pilot confidence.
“Fuel gauges have always had a reputation,” said Scott Philiben, president of CiES. “We built ours by doing it better. This is not just a sender replacement. It is a fuel-awareness upgrade that brings fuel quantity into Garmin’s crew-alerting system with fail-evident design, digital communication, and the monitored performance behind ‘Accuracy Before Empty’.” G3 relied on analog senders and gauge-based low-fuel warning. G5 / Perspective+ with CiES brings fuel quantity into Garmin’s CAS through fail-evident design and digital communication, enabling a fully monitored fuel state and improved CAS messaging. In G6 and G7, that same CiES-enabled architecture supports the next layer of integration, including digital quantity representation, fuel-on-board functionality, imbalance monitoring, and fuel-tank change messaging.
