Honeywell Aerospace has unveiled its Anthem - an all-new aircraft cockpit system built with an always-on, cloud-connected experience that improves flight efficiency, operations, safety and comfort.
According to the company, the Anthem flight deck offers high levels of connectivity, an exciting and intuitive interface modelled after everyday smart devices, and a highly scalable and customisable design. Honeywell Anthem is powered by a flexible software platform that can be customised for virtually every type of aircraft and flying vehicle, including large passenger and cargo planes, business jets, helicopters, general aviation aircraft, and the rapidly emerging class of advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicles.
Honeywell Anthem is designed to solve two problems facing the aviation industry. First, it creates ways for increasingly complex aircraft to function with more autonomy, relieving stress on pilots and promoting safety and efficiency. Second, it enables the disjointed systems that support an aircraft to work together to deliver critical information to pilots seamlessly.
Honeywell Anthem supports growing levels of aircraft autonomy, leading to complete autonomous capabilities in the future as regulations allow. Enabling increasing levels of autonomy — whether it's automating manual tasks for single-pilot operation or automating more complex processes to reduce workload across all pilots, maintainers and other service providers in a large fleet — depends heavily on improving connectivity across aircraft systems.
Mike Madsen, President and CEO, Honeywell Aerospace, said, 'Honeywell is not just launching a new flight deck today - we are changing the way pilots operate aircraft and creating a more intuitive experience than ever. In the same way, we moved from flip phones to smartphones, Honeywell Anthem will transform the pilot experience with customisable controls operated quickly and easily with a few swipes of the finger.'
Vipul Gupta, Vice President & General Manager, Avionics, Honeywell Aerospace, said, 'Everyone who touches a flight is able to get information that matters to them when they need it. The aircraft becomes accessible via the cloud computing infrastructure, and things like maintenance data, flight plans and overall aircraft status are stored automatically by the avionics or via ground-based applications used by support personnel. This means data is accessible by any authorised user from anywhere.'
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