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Honeywell’s Primus Elite Synthetic Vision adds new levels of sophistication and safety enhancements to your cockpit. Synthetic vision realistically depicts the flight path as an easy-to-understand overlay on the primary flight display, just as it would appear out the cockpit windscreen.

The end of September marked a new milestone for ScioTeq.The avionics visualization specialist from Kortrijk in Belgium delivered its 5.000th TSO certified DU-875/885 avionics display to Honeywell.

ScioTeq’s TSO’d DU-875/885 is part of Honeywell’s Primus Elite platform, which has STC’s on over 13 aircraft types, such as Bombardier Global Express, Embraer Legacy L600/650, Gulfstream G IV/IV-SP/V, Falcon 900 EX&C, Do-328, Citation X,..

This platform is designed as an affordable upgrade for the previously fielded DU-870/880 CRT displays, and replaces them with a state of the art LCD solution.

The DU-885/875 guarantees a better image quality, less heat in the cockpit, a lower weight, Advanced Features, Synthetic Vision and lots of other benefits at a lower cost of operation.

The FAA and EASA have signed off on Gulfstream‘s new cockpit upgrade for GIV, GIV-SP, GV, G300 and G400 airplanes. Called PlaneDeck, the new upgrade provides pilots with geo-referenced electronic charts and maps, in-flight XM weather and video displays for the six-screen Honeywell system.

Pilots should notice better clarity as the previous cathode ray-tube DU-880 screens are updated with Honeywell’s Primus Elite DU-885 liquid crystal display units. PlaneDeck also includes the addition of two cursor control devices to help the pilots manipulate the system more efficiently.

The Legacy 650, the newest addition to Embraer’s growing choice of business jets, will fly with Honeywell Primus Elite avionics, a new product offering that will bring XM graphical weather capability, video display link and Jeppesen electronic charts to the cockpit, all of it accessible with a cursor-control graphical interface.

The Primus Elite system is the same package Honeywell is offering as a retrofit upgrade in a variety of business jets. That Embraer chose it for its newest business jet over the Honeywell Primus Epic system is notably smart. Primus Elite doesn’t offer nearly the degree of integration of Primus Epic, but it still packs plenty of punch for a lot less money.

The Elite system offers coupled Vnav approaches, required navigation performance (RNP) 0.3, Waas/LPV, Honeywell’s SmartRunway and SmartLanding runway awareness and advisory system (Raas), and future air navigation system (Fans) 1/A datalink communications. The high-resolution graphics rendered by the Primus Elite displays are capable eventually of supporting Honeywell’s SmartView synthetic-vision system.

Besides featuring less integration than Primus Epic, the Primus Elite system will also be more reliable. The LCD-based Primus Elite display systems can slide into the holes of CRTs in Primus 1000/2000/XP, SPZ-8400/ 8500 and some SPZ-8000 avionics systems. Primus Elite converts the existing CRT displays to more capable and longer lasting active-matrix LCDs. The LCD displays also incorporate internal computing power to allow operators to integrate technologies previously available only in newer aircraft.

“The new displays offer better reliability, enhanced safety and expanded aircraft capability such as datalink weather, charts and maps,” said Chad Cundiff, vice president of crew interface products for Honeywell. “Primus Elite requires no aircraft structural modifications, limited wiring, little downtime and no additional pilot training, saving the operator acquisition and maintenance costs.”

Unlike many other screens, the DU-875 LCD display units fit your existing system, reducing downtime and additional costs. What’s more the DU-875 liquid crystal display upgrade delivers brighter, clearer, higher resolution images, and 2X the reliability of your old and obsolete DU-870 CRTs.

Update your display today and take advantage of a range of benefits, including:Reduced cost of ownership thanks to lighter LCD displays that provide a weight reduction of up to 7lbs per unit, which translates to fuel savings

"For us it"s getting back to basics, the equipment our customers are flying every day," says Rob Wilson, president of Honeywell"s business aviation unit. "That means retrofits, modifications and upgrades." Topping the list of requested applications for those upgraded cockpits, says Wilson, are flight efficiency optimisers like required navigation performance (RNP), enhanced GPS approaches (WAAS LPV) or NextGen features such as controller-pilot datalink (FANS 1/A).

In response, Honeywell is introducing flightdeck upgrades that will put "glass" display upgrades into legacy cockpits while introducing the advanced navigation, communication and surveillance (CNS) features to a large variety of existing and new Gulfstream models.

Along with flight management system upgrades that support WAAS LPV, FANS and RNP special aircraft and aircrew authorisation required (SAAAR) down to 0.1nm (0.18km) separation, Wilson says the retrofit package will also offer legacy cockpits the growth potential to add synthetic vision and paperless terminal charts. Based on the Barco-built DU-885 liquid crystal displays with LED backlighting, Honeywell will offer the package for legacy GIV, GIV-SP, G300, G400 and GV family aircraft.

Similar enhanced capability programs are under way in Dassault aircraft with Primus Epic EASy and Primus 2000-equipped cockpits, as well as in Bombardier Challenger and Global Express models with Honeywell cockpits.

Rockwell Collins unveiled an upgrade programme in 2007 that augments legacy Pro Line 4 cockpits with Pro Line 21 features. Duncan Aviation, the STC holder, has completed two such conversions on Dassault Falcon 50EXs. The upgrade interfaces existing Pro Line 4 sensors, radio and autopilots, to Pro Line 21 displays, which offer graphical weather, electronic charts and airport diagrams, display of enhanced vision system video and other features. Along with the Falcon 50EX, Duncan also holds STCs on the upgrade for the Hawker 800A, Hawker 800XP and Astra 1125, and is developing one for the Falcon 2000. Constant Aviation will obtain an STC for the same conversion on the Beechjet 400A later this year.

The avionics manufacturer has not yet decided whether its new flagship offering - Pro Line Fusion - will be available for the retrofit market. Selected for eight new platforms so far, including the Global Express Global Vision upgrade and Gulfstream G250, Fusion will offer increased situational awareness through synthetic and enhanced vision as well as multi-scan weather radar on 15in (38.1cm) LCD displays, the largest in the industry.

In the cabin, Honeywell is giving customers lower-cost connectivity through an upgrade to Ovation Selection that will allow passengers to send and receive Blackberry messages and pay only by the size of the message.