Aircraft manufacturers have a new choice for sourcing a head-up display (HUD) for their business jet flight decks: Garmin’s GHD 2100. Certified on Textron Aviation’s Garmin G5000-equipped Citation Longitude, the GHD 2100 is a fully capable HUD matched to an Elbit multi-sensor camera system and offering traditional HUD as well as enhanced, synthetic, and combined vision system imagery.
The HUD landscape has been dominated by Collins Aerospace, which bought Head-up Guidance Systems manufacturer Flight Dynamics in 1999 and manufactures HUDs for aircraft equipped with its avionics and for Gulfstream jets with Honeywell Epic-based flight decks. Elbit also manufactures HUDs, and Dassault is the primary business aviation customer, having been first to market with a combined vision system (CVS) overlaying synthetic vision system (SVS) and infrared enhanced vision system (EVS) imagery on the HUD. The GHD 2100 includes CVS as do some modern Collins systems installed on Bombardier and Gulfstream jets.
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