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Piper Certifies GWX 8000 Radar in M-class Singles

Buyers of Piper's M-series single-engine aircraft can now add the optional Garmin GWX 8000 digital radar.

Piper's M600 turboprop is now available with the Garmin GWX 8000 weather radar. (Photo: Matt Thurber/AIN)

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

August 6, 2021

Piper is the first aircraft manufacturer to certify Garmin’s digital GWX 8000 StormOptix weather radar in a piston-engine or turboprop airplane, the company announced at EAA AirVenture.

Garmin unveiled the lightweight GWX 8000 in April, and features of the new radar include a 16-color palette with “greater color contouring” that helps pilots interpret weather storm cell severity. The radar’s 3D volumetric scanning with automatic tilt adjustment scans and depicts hazardous weather and provides hail and lightning prediction, turbulence detection, advanced ground clutter suppression, and predictive wind-shear detection (an optional add-on). To help pilots avoid large storms, Garmin’s Weather Attenuated Color Highlight (Watch) technology can mitigate attenuation effects.

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