MGX1000G1000-style avionics panel: 10.4-inch IPS, 1024 × 768, video over USB

Fly G1000 procedures with your hands, not the mouse

The MGX1000 is an instrument panel for a general-aviation home cockpit. It reproduces the layout and control logic of the Garmin G1000 one to one, so the procedures you already know in MSFS and X-Plane are flown with your hands instead of a mouse pointer. At its core is a 10.4-inch IPS display running 1024 × 768 at up to 500 nits, matching the physical size of a real G1000 unit. Video travels over DisplayLink on a plain USB cable, so no HDMI lead and no spare GPU output are required — a real relief for multi-screen cockpit builds. The rotary encoders have well-defined detents, and the 7-way ALPS joystick switch reproduces the stock G1000 pointer control. The panel is built for PC: it connects with a USB 3.0 Type-A cable and runs from a 5 V / 2 A adapter. Mount it on the included desktop stand, on a 75 × 75 mm VESA bracket, or from the bottom points onto an aluminium profile rig. In MOZA Cockpit each unit is assigned as a PFD or an MFD, and screen brightness, character illumination and button-status lighting are adjusted independently.

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   A G1000 layout, one to one

   The screen, the side soft keys, the dual concentric encoders and the bottom button row follow the real Garmin G1000. You work the panel through the same procedures you would in the aircraft: set NAV and COM frequencies, dial heading and altitude, page through the FMS. The mouse stays free for looking around the cockpit.

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   A screen that is the right size

   The 10.4-inch IPS panel at 1024 × 768 matches the physical size of real G1000 displays, and up to 500 nits keeps the instruments readable even in a bright room. Label text, the speed and altitude tapes and map symbology stay crisp at normal viewing distance.

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   Video over USB instead of HDMI

   The image is carried by DisplayLink over an ordinary USB 3.0 Type-A cable. No free HDMI or DisplayPort on the graphics card is needed — and those are exactly what runs out once a cockpit already has a main monitor and a couple of auxiliary panels. The load on the GPU is lower than adding another full display.

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   Two panels: PFD and MFD

   In MOZA Cockpit each unit is assigned independently — as the primary flight display or as the multi-function display. Place two MGX1000 panels side by side and you have a complete G1000 instrument stack, with separate screen mirroring and its own button mapping for each side.

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   Fitting it into the cockpit

   The housing is deliberately slim and light — 1.17 kg, 66.8 mm deep — so it puts little stress on the mount. A desktop stand is in the box for a quick start; after that the panel moves onto a standard 75 × 75 mm VESA bracket or bolts through its bottom points to an aluminium profile rig.