Epic time
for business
aircraft
Honeywell’s Primus
Epic Upgrade advances
Dassault with EASy II and
Gulfstream with PlaneView
Foxtrot
By Brian F. Finnegan
The Certification Foxtrot upgrade for the PlaneView avionics system includes Synthetic Vision-Primary Flight Display (SV-PFD) 2.0 as well as XM Weather. Both are shown here.
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here is a sea change taking upgrade and now it has been intro- display (SV-PFD 2.0), which is based on
place in the cockpits of modern duced to the market. Honeywell’s SmartView synthetic vision
business aircraft and it is the Now, with the EASy II upgrade, technology. This includes new FMS
Honeywell Primus Epic marking the it is possible to upgrade even leg- 7.1 software that enables advanced
beginning of a new era in global navi- acy aircraft cockpits to Honeywell’s navigation features for greater air-
gation. At the center of this sophisti- enhanced avionics suite. Honeywell’s space and airport access.
cated avionics upgrade are enhance- SmartView synthetic vision system and Before we get into some of the
ments and options for Dassault Falcon SmartRunway runway awareness and enhancements that make this upgrade
and Gulfstream business jets that are advisory system will become available a good business decision, let’s exam-
poised improve safety while both eas- on the Falcon 900 series aircraft begin- ine the implications for a maintenance
ing pilot workload and streamlining ning in early 2010 and then for Falcon department evaluating this invest-
technician support. Here is the latest 2000 and 7X aircraft in 2011. ment. Honeywell, in concert with both
on this industry leading technology Certification Foxtrot, or PlaneView, Dassault and Gulfstream, are pretty
and its implications on the mainte- the Honeywell Primus Epic enhance- confident that the support impact
nance professionals charged with ment for Gulfstream 350, 450, 500, to the maintenance department will
their care. and 550 aircraft, uses the Primus Epic be minimal. “If the technicians have
Taking the lead with its EASy- upgrade to make a Gulfstream aircraft received airframe maintenance train-
equipped Falcons, which earned great “even better than before!” boasts ing from FlightSafety, CAE SimuFlite,
reviews for their revolutionary man-ma- Honeywell’s Paull, “and the upgrade is or Honeywell on the EPIC avionics
chine interface when they began flying certified and available today.” (While troubleshooting and data loading,”
in 2003, Dassault “set a new industry Certification Foxtrot has received FAA said Honeywell senior technical train-
standard for intuitive flying and situ- certification and is, in theory, available, ing specialist Wayne Gardner, “there
ational awareness,” said Adrian Paull, Gulfstream will not offer it to the fleet is no additional training required to
vice president of Customer & Product until they complete in-service evalua- upgrade to the new certifications. No
Support for Honeywell’s Aerospace tion that is currently ongoing.) Like the new technical skills are required.”
business. “There has been a lot of Falcon, the Gulfstreams also have the As long as operators ensure that
industry buzz” around the EASy II latest Synthetic Vision Primary Flight their subscription to Honeywell’s
26 Aviation Maintenance |
avmain-mag.com | December 2009/January 2010
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