Honeywell Aerospace’s FMS guided visual (FGV) team has now developed 120 of the RNAV H approaches that help pilots fly autopilot-coupled visual approaches to runway ends at challenging airports across the globe. By flying these procedures, pilots receive guidance that helps them keep the airplane stable with minimal bank angles in a consistent, repeatable flight path.
Several accidents have occurred where business jet pilots lose aircraft control during a visual approach in good weather. The purpose of FGV approaches is to give pilots guidance in the form of a visual approach procedure that can be loaded into the flight management system (FMS) and used to fly to the runway end. Honeywell released its first FGV approach in 2023, as an additional database subscription for most aircraft equipped with Honeywell FMS. The $2,000-per-year database provides access to every FGV approach that Honeywell has developed.
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