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  • Elbit Enhanced-vision Systems for Boeing 777 and Challenger 604

Elbit Systems of America’s Kollsman Commercial Aviation announced at NBAA 2011 in Las Vegas that flight testing of its second-generation, enhanced-vision system, EVS II, is in progress on a Boeing 777 and that certification flight test of a new Kollsman head-up display (HUD) for the Bombardier Challenger 604 is about to commence. EVS symbology projected onto a HUD, from what Kollsman calls an “enhanced flight vision system,” can make it possible to achieve FAA landing credits for lowered approach minima. 

Leslie Smith, manager of the FAA flight technologies and procedures division, said at the convention that EVS is an integral element of NextGen development. The goal, she said, is to move beyond granting landing credits for low-visibility operations conducted with using EVS to approving operations all the way to the ground and using EVS for surface-movement guidance. “The hardest part is not the landing but getting from the runway to the gate,” she said.

October 15, 2011, 2:55 PM

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