EFIS-App
The electronic flight instrument system powered by X-Plane
EFIS-App is a program from Laminar Research used to simulate an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS). It connects to a copy of X-Plane to very accurately simulate the current Cirrus and Eclipse primary flight display (PFD) and multi-function display (MFD). This lets our users build a pretty accurate Cirrus or Eclipse Avidyne cockpit simulator driven by X-Plane!
EFIS-App runs on its own computer and monitor. Its system requirements are very low; a 1 GHz processor with 512 MB of RAM and a cheap video card are just fine. Its interface represents an Avidyne (typically Cirrus or Eclipse) PFD or MFD when connected with an Ethernet cable to another computer running a copy of X-Plane.
In X-Plane, simply enter the IP address of the computer running EFIS-App in the X-Plane Net Connections screen and X-Plane will drive the high-accuracy Avidyne PFD or MFD in EFIS-App! Users can even get two monitors for the computer running EFIS-App, enter a wide screen resolution into EFIS-App, and have one monitor show the PFD and the other the MFD! As well, X-Plane has no problem driving two, three, or even four copies of EFIS-App at once.
Using EFIS-App, you can finally have a very high-fidelity, high-resolution, stand-alone monitor for the Avidyne PFD and MFD running with X-Plane!
Simply hook up any USB human interface device (any joystick at all!) and assign any button to any function in EFIS-App. You can easily build a custom input device that looks just like the real plane that interfaces via USB to drive EFIS-App!
Download EFIS-App
Click here to download EFIS-App version 9.41 for both Mac OS and Windows. You must use X-Plane 9.41 or later with this copy of EFIS-App.
To unlock the demo, order a Level 2 USB key from the X-Plane store.
Below are screenshots from a copy of EFIS-App driven by X-Plane.
Click an image to view it at full size, then click again to close it.
Here are images of the Cirrus PFD and MFD.
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Here are images of the Eclipse Jet PFD and MFD.
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Here is a screenshot of the EFIS-App connection being turned on in the Net Connections window of X-Plane.
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System requirements
- A 2 GHz CPU
- 1 GB RAM
- DirectX 9 video card or newer
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