Honeywell launched two new products that build on existing Honeywell technologies to address runway incursions and excursions, an almost daily occurrence that has been on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) “most wanted” list since its inception.
Honeywell’s new SmartLanding™ is a software enhancement to Honeywell’s proven Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS), installed on more than 30,000 airline and business aviation aircraft. Through a simple software upgrade to EGPWS, SmartLanding improves pilot situational awareness and helps break the chain of events that can lead to a runway excursion by providing aural and visual alerts upon approach only if the aircraft has not met established safety criteria.
In addition, Honeywell announced Boeing will begin offering a standardized version of Honeywell’s RAAS, a part of Honeywell’s new SmartRunway™ as a forward-fit option on 777 and 747-8 aircraft, available beginning in late 2009. Next-Generation 737 will follow suit with offerability in early 2010. Boeing retrofit service bulletins are planned to follow production offerability.
For more information, read the press releases on Smart Landing and SmartRunway.
