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FAA adding EVAS to its entire fleet

For years, the marketers of the Emergency Vision Assurance System (EVAS) have been asking the FAA to require the product.

By Gordon Gilbert • Contributor - Accidents and Regulations

November 26, 2007

For years, the marketers of the Emergency Vision Assurance System (EVAS) have been asking the FAA to require the product. They argue that it is already STC’d and installed on a number of business and airline aircraft, and the FAA accepts that it is the only product designed to provide pilots with a means of seeing vital instruments and out the windshield in the event of “continuous” smoke in the cockpit.

Now, in an interesting twist, the FAA has ordered EVAS for dual installations in all 50 of its corporate, R&D, training and flight inspection aircraft (at about $28,000 per installation). All the installations, with the exception of the agency’s Convair CV-580s, are STC’d.

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