Avionics

The flight guidance system selected by VFW‐Fokker for use on its VFW‐614 is the FGS‐70 integrated autopilot/flight director system developed by The Bendix Corporation's Navigation & Control Division. It was flight evaluated for the first time aboard the VFW‐614 on November 30, 1972 in Bremen, Germany. The unparalleled success of the first flight on the G3 prototype aircraft was due largely to the coordinated efforts of VFW‐Fokker and Bendix in programming the aircraft stability derivatives on Bendix analog simulators.