Rockwell Collins Brings Touch Screen technology to the King Air
The reduction in head-down time is reason enough to upgrade.
Pilots with experience in the Pro Line II system, such as the author, will need more time to acclimate to the Pro Line Fusion system, compared with pilots who are familiar with older flight decks. Experience with iPads helps with touchscreen familiarity.
Pilots with experience in the Pro Line II system, such as the author, will need more time to acclimate to the Pro Line Fusion system, compared with pilots who are familiar with older flight decks. Experience with iPads helps with touchscreen familiarity.

If you’re not yet an iPad user, you might as well get used to touchscreen technology because that’s clearly where the industry is headed, and with good reason. Rockwell Collins’s Pro Line Fusion Touch upgrade is a case in point. Touchscreens reduce not only pilot workload, but also pilot head-down time, an especially important item in single-pilot operations. Fusion’s synthetic vision also improves situational awareness.