Although EAA’s AirVenture 2008 wasn’t a big show for avionics manufacturers, Honeywell’s Bendix/King showed that the manufacturer is serious about the general aviation market with the introduction of the new AV8OR Handheld navigator and two AV8OR synthetic-vision system (SVS) handheld/electronic flight bag (EFB) units.
The portable navigator sans SVS is simply called the AV8OR Handheld. The two SVS units are the AV8OR Horizon 3D and AV8OR Vision 3D. These are both derived from Honeywell’s licensing of Mercury Computing Systems’ VistaNav SVS products in April. VistaNav was offered in two versions, the CIS-1000 and more capable CIS-2000 EFB, both running on Motion Computing tablet computers. But for the Bendix/King implementation Honeywell switched to a Samsung Q1 Ultra Tablet PC for the Horizon 3-D version (formerly CIS-1000) and dedicated EFB computer for the Vision 3D. Both the Horizon and the Vision display 2-D and 3-D synthetic-vision views of the outside world, with air data and gyroscopic sensor data provided by associated hardware. Honeywell is making changes to the Horizon system and is not currently selling it, but the Vision EFB is available now.
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