Honeywell Partners Hawker Pacific to Provide High-Res Display Upgrades to Embraer Legacy 600s

Honeywell Aerospace has signed an agreement with Hawker Pacific, an aircraft sales and product support organization, to provide DU-875 Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) upgrades for the Primus Elite Flight Deck aboard Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft.

Hawker Pacific’s Singapore facility will be the first maintenance, repair and overhaul provider in the Asia Pacific region to perform the installation, which is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2015.

“Working with Honeywell, we are able to deliver advanced upgrades to current and future Embraer Legacy 600 owners/operators across Asia Pacific,” said Tan Wee Sing, Director of Sales, Hawker Pacific Asia. “With these high-resolution displays, our Legacy 600 customers now have the opportunity to improve their cockpits for today and in the future.”

The new graphical display capability of Primus Elite improves flight safety and comfort by providing advanced situational awareness cues for the pilot including the display of the aircraft symbol on all geo-referenced charts and maps. These additional graphical cues significantly reduce the pilot’s scan and data assimilation time facilitating quicker decisions and smoother transitions to changing flight profiles due to weather or air traffic control.

The new displays allow operators to use advanced technology typically available only on newer aircraft, making it available as a retrofit or forward-fit application. The onscreen navigational, airport and terminal charts help reduce workload and boost operational performance. In addition, it does not require cockpit panel modifications or additional pilot training and involves limited wiring changes.

“Apart from the numerous benefits with the Primus Elite DU875, this upgrade will allow AC Aviation to capitalize on forthcoming technologies and future growth path such as SVS and ADS-B In,” Stephen Levesque, General Manager, AC Aviation.

Andy Gill, senior director, Business and General Aviation, Asia Pacific, Honeywell Aerospace, added, “Equipping aircraft with advanced technology like Primus Elite can reduce operators’ acquisition and maintenance costs while increasing the aircraft value. With this upgraded system, Hawker Pacific is able to provide upgrades that are more reliable and weigh less than previous displays.”

The Honeywell Primus Elite Flight Deck features high-resolution LCD, enables Jeppesen electronic charts and maps, video playback capability, and optional XM graphical weather data, which delivers weather coverage regardless of bad conditions.

The high-resolution graphics rendered by the display will also be capable of showing Honeywell’s SmartView Synthetic Vision System, which is planned for future certification.