Honeywell is offering a new product called “long landing”–an EGPWS software solution, in addition to its new SmartLanding. “Long landings” can result from both stable and unstabilized approaches, according to Michael Grove, Honeywell marketing director for safety and information management surveillance systems. The system calls out a “long landing” if the aircraft hasn’t touched down within the first 2,000 feet of runway or in the first 25 percent of available landing distance.
Honeywell senior test pilot Mike Dubbury demonstrated each of SmartLanding’s attributes to AIN during a recent flight in a company King Air from Centennial Airport in Englewood, Colo. Dubbury first left the flaps up during approach, generating a “flaps, flaps” warning. Then he set the altimeter too high by half an inch of mercury, which meant we were 500 feet low during the approach. SmartLanding was set to deliver the “altimeter setting” warning at either 5,000 feet above field elevation or 20 nm from the airport. The King Air also has the SmartRunway system installed and it made the standard call noting that we were “approaching 35R” (the planned landing runway at Centennial).
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