Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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While some Citation Mustang owners have opted to upgrade their Garmin G1000 avionics to the NXi configuration, Garmin has unveiled an&nbsp;STC for the Mustang that adds more features to the NXi upgrade. These include a new radar, diversity transponder, and datalink weather and communications.

 


These features can be added to Mustangs that already have the NXi upgrade, while those with the original G1000 avionics can be upgraded to the NXi configuration with the new offerings. A big change for Mustangs is the package’s GWX 75 weather radar, which replaces&nbsp;the original magnetron-based, four-color GWX 68. The GWX 75 is a digital radar with 16 colors, vertical scanning, weather attenuated color highlight technology, and optional ground clutter suppression and turbulence detection.

 


Dual GTX 345DR transponders, which are part of the new NXi STC, provide ADS-B In traffic and weather and the ability to operate where diversity transponder output is required or helpful. Diversity transponders have antennas mounted on the bottom and top of the fuselage, allowing surveillance to work more consistently than it would from only belly-mounted antennas. Aireon’s space-based ADS-B requires diversity transponders in many countries and some over-ocean regions.

 


Meanwhile, Garmin’s GSR 56 Iridium transceiver adds global weather information, two-way text and voice communications, automatic position tracking, and other datalink services to the very light twinjet.

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