John and Martha King this month plan to take the wraps off a new online training course developed for pilots transitioning from traditional instruments to the Garmin G1000 integrated cockpit. The course will include about four hours of video with interactive quizzes at the end of each training session.

Designed to provide pilots with a comprehensive overview of the G1000 system before they ever strap into an airplane behind the real avionics, the King Schools training course will sell for $199 for the IFR version and $149 for the VFR version. The Garmin G1000 avionics system has been certified in a variety of piston airplanes and has been selected by Cessna for the Citation Mustang very light jet.