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business development and marketing services for
Universal Avionics.
a sweeping upgrade like this one offered by SEA
before. "
Gomoll said the Hawker 800 series aircraft owners
love the stand-up cabin, but it is getting more difficult
and expensive to maintain some of the cockpit systems,
so SEA wanted to offer a comprehensive solution. The
company is planning to replace this aging equipment
with Universal's InSight Integrated Flight Deck.
The STCs will allow Hawker 800A, 800B, 800XP,
1000A, 1000B aircraft with existing Collins EFIS
85/86, along with FCS-80 and APS-85 autopilots and
Bouliane added that this will reduce pilot workload
and increase situational awareness. Bouliane also cited
InSight's modern maintenance capabilities, including
remote diagnostic capability. This will likely appeal to
Hawker 800 series owners struggling with maintenance
issues.
Luke Gomoll is an aircraft modification sales representative for
Southeast Aerospace and is responsible for building customer
relationships, technical quoting of aircraft modifications, and
ultimately bringing the aircraft into SEA for retrofit.
Honeywell SPZ-8000 avionics, to be upgraded. The
autopilots will remain in place and are fully supported
by Collins Aerospace and Honeywell, respectively.
There are four major flight deck variations in the
Hawker series aircraft, and SEA's STCs will address
retrofitting three of them. The modifications will
cost somewhere between $550,000 and $750,000,
depending on the options selected.
" By upgrading with InSight, the flight crew can
now take advantage of an intuitive human-machine
interface with synthetic vision and advanced mapping
capabilities, embedded electronic charts, radio control,
and more, " said Marc Bouliane, vice president of
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" They (Hawker 800/1000 series owners) won't
have to worry about having to swap displays out
while they are trying to leave on a trip, " Gomoll said.
" They will have a new system that will eliminate all of
those (types of) problems and give them greater value
regarding dispatchability and controlling unforeseen
maintenance costs. "
This offering could help change the frustrations
being experienced by a lot of Hawker operators.
" Sometimes, they are beating their heads against the
wall trying to get the support they need, " Gomoll said.
" Pilots complain, operators complain, and owners
complain. So we've been listening to this for a while.
That's when we started talking to Universal. We looked
at the business case and decided to do it so these
aircraft can fly a long time into the future. "
Gomoll noted that hull values have been all over
the place in the last couple of years. Still, in general,
hull values are going up, and investing in the InSight
flight deck upgrade will increase the aircraft value
significantly. " It's a great upgrade (with Universal) to
the aircraft, especially if you are chartering, " Gomoll
said. " You're removing a lot of equipment that is
causing you problems here in these later years. "
In the announcement leading up to the National
Business Aviation Association's Business Aviation
Convention & Exposition in October 2021, SEA said
it is looking for a Hawker 800 with an SPZ flight deck
as the first article for the second STC. These flight
decks have older CRT displays, so SEA will remove
the four EFIS displays, a multifunction display, radio
management units, the flight management systems, and
some analog gauges.
The InSight system can connect to many different
autopilots, data computers, radars and flight
management systems. When Universal was founded in
the early 1980s by Hubert Naimer, he invented the first
flight management system in the industry. In 2007,
the company received the first certification of an FMS
capable of satellite navigation with WAAS/SBAS.
The Hawker upgrades will be compatible with
all existing ADS-B solutions installed on this
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