Rockwell Collins has entered the enhanced vision system (EVS) market with a deal to equip the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) and other models of 737. The system will use the HGS-4000 head-up display (HUD) produced by subsidiary Flight Dynamics and already certificated in the BBJ and 737. Collins has yet to announce an infrared sensor supplier, but certification is due in December 2005.
Enhanced vision continued to make news at NBAA, with Bombardier and Gulfstream making their HUD/EVS systems standard on the new Global Express XRS and G450, respectively. Cessna, meanwhile, is offering Max-Viz's EVS-2000, with head-down display, as an option on the 2004 Citation X. Western Aircraft is completing a supplemental type certificate to retrofit Max-Viz's uncooled EVS-1000 on the Pilatus PC-12.
CMC Electronics has delivered the first dual-band infrared sensor for the Bombardier EVS, with flight testing on the Global Express scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter, followed by production deliveries a year later and entry into service on the Global Express in the first quarter of 2005. Images will be projected on the pilot's Thales Avionics HUD, with a head-down presentation for the co-pilot on a flight-management system control/display unit.
Source: Flight International
