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Pilot Report: CJ2+ Alpine Edition
By: Matt Thurber
Caption: Pushing the technology envelope
Word Count: 98
If it isn’t blindingly obvious already that Cessna has made a huge shift to Garmin avionics in its lineup of business jets, then the retrofit of the G3000 flight deck to the Citation CJ2+ is yet another indicator of where the company is headed. The G3000 upgrade for the CJ2+ is part of an upgrade, called the Alpine edition, that is not an option for new CJ2+s coming off the assembly line. Cessna has also switched the CJ3 to the G3000 system in the new CJ3+, but this is for new jets, not retrofits.