Honeywell sings new tune with Anthem Avionics

摘要

Honeywell has unveiled its next-generation avionics platform-called Anthem- the first "cloud-connected" avionics suite designed to serve all aviation segments from advanced/urban air mobility vehicles to light aircraft, business jets, and the largest air transport aircraft. With full-time connectivity, Anthem gives pilots and operators many new capabilities, including the ability to create and upload a flight plan away from the aircraft, even if the aircraft is not powered on. Other features, such as customizing the layout of flight deck displays, can also be done remotely. The primary focus, however, is improving the user interface for pilots, and this means not just intuitive gesture control of touchscreens but also voice control. Anthem is not the next version of Honeywell's foundational Epic avionics system "This is a transformational change compared with Epic, not an incremental or growth version," said Vipul Gupta, with accommodating hardware and software limitations than with making operation intuitive for pilots. On the Anthem flight deck, pilots will use the pilot interface display unit (PIDU) along with fully touchscreen instrument panel displays.