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Aviation News Item: 01009
7th Sep 2009
500th Gulfstream EVS Enters into Service
Source: fly-corporate.com
 Gulfstream Aerospace marked the entry-into-service of its 500th Gulfstream Enhanced Vision System (EVS). The milestone comes eight years after the company began offering the flight deck technology to operators of large-cabin Gulfstream aircraft.
The original Gulfstream EVS, and now the second-generation EVS II, uses a nose-mounted FLIR (forward-looking infrared) camera, specially designed by Elbit Systems of America - Commercial Aviation Kollsman, to generate actual, real-time images of the aircraft's surroundings. The system dramatically increases situational awareness at night and during low-visibility daylight conditions by allowing pilots to see terrain, runways, taxiways and approaches that are undetectable by unaided sight. To date, EVS I is in-service on 464 Gulfstream aircraft, while EVS II is in-service on 36 Gulfstream aircraft.
Initially certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in September 2001, the Gulfstream EVS was the first of its type to be available on a business-jet aircraft. In late 2007 and early 2008, Gulfstream became the first Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to have both enhanced and synthetic vision systems - EVS II and Synthetic Vision-Primary Flight Display (SV-PFD) - certified at the same time by the FAA. The EVS II, whose hardware components are 22 pounds lighter, with four times the computational power and four times the memory of the original, has an improved maintenance interface within the Gulfstream PlaneView flight deck featuring Honeywell Primus Epic avionics.
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