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CVS integrated on Sovereign Flight Deck. ing findings from an initial empirical study in the laboratory revealing advantages of the head-down display location for the detection of the approach lights, the team went to flight test to further enhance the CVS features. The first series of flight tests of the CVS prototype system took place in a Cessna Citation Sovereign aircraft in June 2010. The experimental installation featured a Kollsman EVS II camera on the top of the aircraft nose in a forward storage compartment. The IR image from the camera was integrated onto the synthetic vision display on the primary flight display on the left side. The objective of the evaluation was to evaluate the system performance in flight in both visual meteorological conditions (VMC) and instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) in the Phoenix, AZ, area and the west coast of California. The integration included symbology improvements to declutter elements of the display to optimize the detection of the approach lighting system, the development of the colorized IR imagery to improve the integration into the synthetic vision system (SVS) background, and the creation of a semi-transparent sky portion of the image to imSAE electronics+connectivity

Honeywell CVS showing the colorized IR image inside the center window of the SVS display.
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