Flight Display Systems (booth 4484) has marked here at NBAA its first foray into the cabin management system market with the introduction of the first cabin management system aimed solely at the retrofit market.
Speaking at the show, Jay Healey, Flight Display's vice-president of satellite systems, said the company has been a supplier of in-flight entertainment parts such as LCD screens and DVDs to the interiors industry, including widescreen TVs and DVD for a number of years and has built a network of around 500 dealers across the globe, many of which have been calling on the company to build a cabin management system.
"Our Select CMS system offers true high-definition video interfacing", he said "and is available for around a third less than rival systems provided by traditional CMS suppliers such as Rockwell Collins and Honeywell. Flight Display will focus its sales effort on the US market initially to eliminate any teething problems. We hope to begin selling the CMS to international markets in around three months", Healey added.
Development of the Select CMS is based on feedback from customers across the aircraft spectrum from helicopters to business jets who were asking for a user-friendly high-quality system, Healey said. "Passengers can manage HD video, audio, window shades, lighting, temperature and many more cabin amenities with an easy touch interface", he said, "and it is available with a 60-day lead time".
Flight Display also introduced today a new MP3 player for in-flight entertainment systems, designed to replace multiple compact disc systems offered on many business aircraft. The equipment provides up to 90h of music in one compact unit.
Six independent memory cards hold up to 15h of music and each card can be programmed by the user for six different genres of music simultaneously broadcast throughout the cabin.
Source: Flight Daily News
