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Advanced cockpits reinvented for newest business aircraft

The pace of airplane introductions in the first half of the year has bordered
on frenetic.

By Stephen Pope

May 1, 2008

The pace of airplane introductions in the first half of the year has bordered
on frenetic. Cessna started things off in late January by introducing the Citation Columbus, Gulfstream followed suit in mid-March with the announcement of the G650 and just last month Embraer gave the green light to a pair of midsize jets slotted into its lineup between the Phenom 300 and Legacy 600. What all of these airplanes have in common are their advanced cockpits, developed around old ideas about avionics integration but updated to take advantage of new technologies.

The PlaneView II cockpit for the Gulfstream G650 represents an “evolutionary step” forward from the current PlaneView system flying in the G350/450/500/550, according to system developers. PlaneView is itself an outgrowth of the Primus Epic integrated avionics system from Honeywell, originally introduced almost a dozen years ago and flying today aboard a variety of business jets including all new Falcons (in the form of the Dassault EASy cockpit), the Cessna Citation Sovereign, the Hawker 4000 and soon the Embraer Lineage.

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