Lower cost FDS option available from Meggitt
Meggitt Avionics is displaying its secondary flight display system, secondary flight display repeater and magnetometer here at its stand (Hall 2B Stand L13

Meggitt Avionics is displaying its secondary flight display system, secondary flight display repeater and magnetometer here at its stand (Hall 2B Stand L13A). The company reported it has recently received a $20 million, nine-year contract to supply the system, including spares and support, for the Apache Longbow. It claims its system is a lower cost solution to displaying standby flight data in tandem or wide cockpits where two displays are needed.

The lower cost element is the repeater, which takes its data from the secondary flight display’s sensors. “The conventional approach to kitting out tandem or wide cockpits is to use two secondary flight displays, which means two sets of data sensors,” said Chris Butler, Meggitt Avionics’ marketing manager.