A dedicated Flight Data Computer does the sensing. The iPad you already own becomes the display.
For experimental and amateur-built aircraft.
The sensing, state estimation and aircraft integration live in a dedicated Flight Data Computer. The iPad does what it does best: a bright, familiar display.
A 3D view of the terrain ahead, drawn behind the attitude display, with runways, taxiways and aprons in place. Choose terrain-clearance colouring, satellite imagery or a hybrid of both. Terrain and airport data live on the iPad, so terrain works with no internet.
Attitude, airspeed and altitude tapes, heading and vertical speed on a bright, high-resolution native iPad app. Not a web page and not a remote screen: a real instrument on hardware you already know.
Purpose-built hardware running custom firmware and a custom extended Kalman filter for attitude and air data. Triple-redundant inertial sensors and dual barometers are continuously cross-checked, so a failing sensor is voted out instead of reaching your display.
Radio calls are transcribed live on the iPad as you hear them, so a missed clearance is there to read back. Speech recognition runs on the device, with no internet needed.
Transcription runs in the app today. The audio link from the radio is in development.
Integrates with the MGL V16 com radio over CAN. Tune frequencies and see radio status right on the iPad.
A satellite or hybrid map that follows the aircraft, with airport layouts drawn in. Track-up or north-up.
Two GPS receivers measure heading from the baseline between their antennas. There is no magnetometer to calibrate, and no interference from the engine or wiring.
Standard GDL90 over WiFi feeds your EFB with no extra software, including attitude into OzRunways via the AHRS extension. Your charts and these instruments, side by side.
GPS and airspeed sensors connect over a high-speed CAN bus network. Fewer wires, sensors mounted where they belong, and a network built to grow with your panel.
Altitude is QNH-aware throughout. When the iPad has internet, it fetches the local QNH from the nearest METAR automatically.
The GPS receivers use SouthPAN satellite-based augmentation for better accuracy across Australia and New Zealand.
A power-on hours counter that survives power loss, shown on the display.
The Flight Data Computer sends a single GDL90 stream over WiFi. The native app and your EFB both read it, so there is nothing extra to install on the EFB side.
Gardner Avionics is Kyle Gardner's company, and Crux EFIS is being built for Kyle's own homebuilt aircraft. It is designed by a builder who wants the same things from a panel that you do: clear instruments, honest engineering and hardware that makes sense in an experimental aircraft.
These are on the roadmap. None of them is part of the product today.
AI features that read Flight Data Computer data on the iPad: a voice copilot, engine-anomaly detection and a flight advisor.
Heading and altitude targets set on the iPad, flown through MGL servos. The on-screen autopilot panel is built; the servo drive is not yet.
Every piece of flight data recorded on the iPad, with replay after the flight.
Audio alerts and voice callouts from the iPad played through the intercom.
Engine data from an MGL RDAC on the iPad.
Nearby traffic shown on the display.
Weather layered over the map.
Angle of attack from a second airspeed and static sensor.
MGL ECB circuit-breaker control from the iPad.
A live thermal or infrared camera feed on the iPad, for night and haze.
Interactive checklists on the display.
Display setups saved per aircraft.
Watches the iPad's temperature and battery on a hot glareshield, and eases the graphics load before it overheats.
Recent engineering milestones, drawn straight from the development history.
In development since 10 Aug 2026.
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