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Rockwell Collins, Safety Benefits Of Head Up Flying Guidance System By Steve Hall |
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April 20, 2011 - Rockwell Collins introduced its HGS
3500, the industry’s first Head-up Guidance System (HGS)
available for light to mid-size business aircraft. The
announcement was made at the 56th Annual Corporate
Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS) in San Diego, Calif.
The new HGS-3500 empowers flight crews to achieve
greater precision at all times by presenting information
in the pilot’s forward field of view, eliminating the
need to continually transition from head-down
instruments to a head-up, out-the window view during
critical phases of flight.
Exclusively available for aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion™ avionics, the high degree of integration between the HGS-3500 and Pro Line Fusion makes it possible to display synthetic and enhanced vision images directly on the head-up display (HUD). This advanced capability available only on Rockwell Collins HGS further increases situational awareness and safety. |
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“Commercial airliners and large business aircraft have
confidently flown with our HGS for more than 25 years. We
applied this vast experience along with our strong expertise in
display and optics technology to create a compact, breakthrough
system that brings this advanced capability to thousands of
aircraft that never before had access to the safety benefits of
head-up flying,” said Greg Irmen, vice president and general
manager of Business and Regional Systems for Rockwell Collins.
The Rockwell Collins HGS-3500 features an innovative, all-in-one
hardware design optimized to easily conform to the structure and
aesthetics of the flight deck of light- to mid-sized business
aircraft. The system uses substrate guided optics to project the
forward field of view image through the HUD via an optical
waveguide.
Rockwell Collins has delivered more than 3,500 HGS to customers
around the world, making it the leader in head-up display (HUD)
technology. The Rockwell Collins HGS-3500 will be on display at
the 11th Annual European Business Aviation Convention &
Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland, May 17-19, 2011.
A 2009 Flight Safety Foundation study concluded that HGS technology would have positively influenced the outcome of hundreds of accidents over a 12-year period. The study found that 38% of all accidents were likely or highly likely to have been prevented if the pilot had a HGS. The study also came to the conclusion that a staggering 69% of landing and takeoff accidents and 57% of loss of control could have been avoided if the pilot had access to the information available on a HGS. To read the complete study, click here. |
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