Enhanced Avionics System

Enhanced Avionics System (or EASy) is an IMA Avionics suite and Cockpit display system used on Dassault Falcon business jets since Falcon 900EX, and later used in other newer Falcon aircraft such as Falcon 2000EX and Falcon 7X [cite web
url=http://marches.lefigaro.fr/stocks/actualites.html?ID_NOTATION=45426&ID_NEWS=76430749
title=Dassault présente le Falcon 900LX à faible consommation
publisher=Le Figaro
quote="The aircraft comes standard with the award-winning EASy flight deck. The EASy flight deck is designed to reduce pilot workload and improve pilot interaction through elevated situational awareness in the cockpit. Today, over 215 EASy equipped aircraft are in operation."
date=2008-05-20
accessdate=2008-02-09] .

EASy has been jointly developed by Dassault and Honeywell, and is based on Honeywell Primus EPIC [cite web
url=http://www51.honeywell.com/aero/common/documents/DassaultFalconEasyFlightDeck.pdf
title=Dassault Falcon EASy Flight Deck
publisher=Honeywell
date=2008-05-20
accessdate=2008-02-09] .

History

Dassault started to develop the EASy flight deck in the mid-1990s with a goal to have a much better integration of aircraft systems such as FMScite web
url=https://www.dassaultfalcon.com/whatsnew/shared/w_prelease_details.jsp?DOCNUM=40201
title=Dassault Falcon's EASy Flight Deck Celebrates One Year Anniversary with Prestigious Industry Safety Award
publisher=Dassault Aviation
date= 2004-12-17
accessdate=2008-09-27] .

EASy was first integrated and certificated on Falcon 900EX. The first EASy equipped 900EX was delivered in December 2003. Honeywell's Primus EPIC base of EASy was the integrated on other business jets and helicopters [cite web
url=http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews/02fidae/avion03.htm
title=Honeywell's Primus Epic has One More to Go
publisher=Aviation Week
date= 2003
accessdate=2008-09-27] [cite web
url=http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/technical-hurdles-delay-primus-epic-program/
title=Technical hurdles delay Primus Epic program
publisher=ainonline.com
date= 2003-08-01
quote="When Honeywell started the development program no one had ever certified an MAU. There were no regulations or TSO standards to follow and so Honeywell had to start from square one, working with the FAA and JAA to set the standards for what an MAU would be."
accessdate=2008-09-27] .

EASy was certificated on the Falcon 2000EX in June 2004 with deliveries starting shortly after. Falcon 7X was developed from the ground-up with EASy avionics.

Architecture

EASy architecture is based on Integrated Modular Avionics. The processing modules are called "MAU" (Modular Avionics Units) [cite web
url=http://www.honeywell.com/sites/servlet/com.merx.npoint.servlets.DocumentServlet?docid=DF366FB02-A826-B738-E457-4370CFFEF6CD
title=Dassault Falcon EASY Flight Deck
publisher=Honeywell
quote="The heart of the EASy platform is two, dual-channel, cabinet-based modular avionics units (MAUs). Highly rationalized, the MAU integrates functional cards for several applications into a single module. Each functional card performs multiple tasks previously requiring dedicated computer processors."
date= July 2005
accessdate=2008-02-09] .

References

ee also

* Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA)
* Cockpit display system
* Dassault Falcon 7X
* Dassault Aviation

External links

* [http://falconeasygroup.com/ User Forum for EASy users]