West Star Aviation, a Universal Avionics Authorized Service Center, has recently completed an Insight^TM Display system installation on a Falcon 2000 aircraft at their GJT facility, a first for the company.

The Insight is a flight deck upgrade that replaces the original Proline IV CRT displays with new LCD displays. The system can incorporate the new display system into your existing avionics platforms and retain the existing AP/FD, AHRS, WX RDR, TCAS and EGPWS systems. Existing avionics are evaluated during the quoting process for compatibility. Some ADS-B solutions are not compatible and do require some modifications.

The Insight system consists of the EFI-1040 LCD displays, Data Concentrator Unit (DCU), EFIS Control Display Units (ECDU), Alphanumeric Keyboard (ANK) and the Cursor Control Panels (CCP). A typical upgrade would include a new standby attitude system and CVR.

Current STCs for the Insight system include Falcon 2000, Falcon 900B, Falcon 20, Hawker 800XPand Citation VII.

Key Features & Benefits

InSight is a fully integrated display system. Key features of this InSight solution include:

Synthetic Vision System (SVS): A visualization system based on the presentation of a database-driven 3D terrain as an underlay to the Primary Flight Display (PFD) to substantially increase the situational awareness of pilots in any external visual condition.

Interactive Digital Map: Presents a selectable layer of a synthetic view of the terrain under the aircraft. This layer is selectable either as a full screen or inset view on the PFD or the NAV Display. Using a cursor device on the map, such as the touchscreen of the EFIS Control Display Unit (ECDU), navigation aids, or airports may be selected to pull up relevant information on this selection including communication and navigation frequencies, airport data, etc. Among its unique features are the automatic decluttering of information as the user changes the displayed range on the map.

Pilot-Selectable Screen Layouts with Graphical User Interface: Provides intuitive and customizable presentation of critical information.

Embedded Charting and Map Support:

Provides critical situational awareness information for pilots, even while taxiing.

• Aircraft Present Position is overlaid
• Airport and Terminal
• Airway Depiction
• Geo-Referenced Own Ship
• Special Use Airspace
• Remaining Runway Distance

Embedded Frequency Management:

• Can eliminate the need for separate radio controls or discrete tune units
• User-friendly interface integrated with the FMS
• Suggested frequencies
• Radios easily tuned via the moving map display with simple “Point and Click” Tune from Map

Touch EFIS Control Display Unit (ECDU):

• Radios easily tuned from the ECDU Tune pages
• Control of EFIS Cursor via ECDU Touch Screen for the ultimate flexibility using “pinch and stretch” zoom, etc., greatly improving the user interface

Remote Diagnostic and Maintenance:

• Hosted in a partition of the DCU II, the web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) offers a rich set of troubleshooting utilities to analyze every aspect of the system. Any laptop or router connected to the RJ45 port of the DCU II gives access to this functionality.
• The maintenance function shows maintenance personnel the overall health of each LRU in the system and displays data for each I/O port on every LRU. This utility also serves as the entry point to enable UA to upload software updates in the field.