LEFT: On the approach to Innsbruck, Austria, the updated
Gulfstream PlaneView flight deck by Honeywell shows
range rings, extended centerlines with distance markers.
Meanwhile, the Horizontal Situational Indicator (HSI)
displays terrain within the aircraft’s field of view.
came out in 2005, technology has
really moved along.”
New requirements
While technology may be moving, so
are the requirements. Saland went on
to explain that with the impending new
requirements, operators are going to
have to deal with ADS-B (Automatic
Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast),
WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation
System, a form of differential GPS giving
enhanced position accuracy), and with
LPV (Localizer Performance with Vertical
Guidance) or RNP-SAAAR (Required
Navigational Performance - Special
Aircraft and Aircrew Approval Required)
emphasized. “It is analogous to a moved on.” He explained that when approaches. “The beauty of how far we
747-400 going across the pond. We a new requirement came along such have come,” said Saland, “is that you
are at the same level as that. Foxtrot as, for example, with TCAS (Traffic can replace a card and change proces-
capabilities bring the aircraft to a Collision and Avoidance System), the sors or a symbol generator and get the
level that is equal to any civilian question was how to install it in an much better graphics that you need for
aircraft out there flying and, as the older airplane that wasn’t designed for synthetic vision.” The industry is in a
regulatory landscape changes, espe- it? There was always an obsolescence phase where new technology standards
cially over in Europe, we feel that issue with older cockpits in trying to can easily be upgraded into the exist-
Gulfstream is leading the way.” integrate new technology. ing fleet. “It’s really an exciting time
Cooreman said that Foxtrot, with all “The 900EX airplane has a Primus because I don’t know of any other era
of its options, brings the navigational 2000 avionics suite and, when EASy where this kind of upgrade was pos-
capability and the flight crew situ- came along,” recalled Saland, “you sible,” said Saland.
ational awareness to an industry lead- couldn’t upgrade (Primus) because With the flight test program nearly
ing level. “From an investment point EASy is a totally customized version complete, certification of Falcon 900
of view,” Cooreman added, “it makes of the Honeywell Epic. EASy (short series aircraft should occur by March
the airplane top of the line for resale. for Enhanced Avionics System) has a 2010, and will take until mid-summer
From a safety and capability point of far superior moving map and offers to get into production. The Falcon
view, there is no question that it is far superior handling of abnormal or 7X and 2000 series aircraft are about
worth its weight in gold.” emergency issues” because, instead of a year behind. “All of our three air-
At Dassault Falcon Jet in Teterboro, utilizing annunciators, EASy as many planes, because they are two engines
I had the opportunity to discuss the as 400 crew alerting system messages versus three, or they are fly by wire
EASy II upgrade with Woody Saland, in English. Checklists are linked to versus non-fly-by wire, are separate
manager of technical programs. “If synoptics so, rather than memorizing programs within Honeywell,” said
you look at the way avionics has the system knowledge, you see it on Saland. “So, even though they are an
progressed over time,” said Saland, the display. “In the 10 years between EASy flight deck, their certifications
“there was no real upgrade path the Primus 2000 era, which was a mid- are totally new.”
when, years later, the technology 1995 airplane, and when the EASy
As far as the upgrade from the
EASy to the EASy II is concerned,
most of the changes are with new
cards. There are new symbol genera-
tor cards, called AGMs, to implement
the increased graphics of synthetic
vision and other displays. The displays
themselves are exactly the same. The
same is true for GPS. The current
Example of two types of situations
EASy II RAAS airplanes are TSO-129 and EASy II will
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