A system for interfacing a user to a plurality of different avionics devices includes a plurality of communications links. Each link is coupled to a different one of the plurality of different avionics devices and adapted to communicate therewith according to a communications protocol associated with the one of the plurality of different avionics devices to which it is coupled. A front panel includes a display device and a plurality of user input components. A processor that is coupled to each of the plurality of communications links, the processor configured to display data from each of the different avionics devices on the display device so that the data from each of the different avionics devices is shown in a different graphical user interface on the display device and so that each graphical user interface conforms to a common display format, the processor further configured to receive user input for a selected one of the avionics devices through at least one of the plurality of user input components and to transmit the user input to the selected one of the avionics devices through one of the plurality of communication links that is coupled to the selected one of the avionics devices.