Avionics
EVS aims at bigger market in smaller, non-HUD business jets
Until about a year ago, infrared enhanced vision systems (EVS) were exclusively the bailiwick of operators of large aircraft, in which they were installed

Until about a year ago, infrared enhanced vision systems (EVS) were exclusively the bailiwick of operators of large aircraft, in which they were installed as upgrades to the standard head-up display. Primarily, the aircraft were the Gulfstream IV/IV-SP/G300/G400, GV/ G500/G550 and Bombardier Global Express, and their EVS add-ons– built by Kollsman of Merrimack, N.Y. for the Gulfstream and by CMC Electronics of Montreal for the Global–were priced appropriately to those ships at around $500,000 apiece.

But what a difference a year makes. Newcomer Max-Viz, of Portland, Ore., jumped into the corporate aircraft market last fall with a lower-cost EVS designed to be installed in non-HUD aircraft, where its infrared images are portrayed on a multifunction or other head-down display in the flight deck.