Honeywell says its SmartRunway and SmartLanding technologies, developed to reduce runway accidents at crowded airports, have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval, allowing the company to deliver its runway products to customers for aircraft installation.  Honeywell says it has the only runway safety products to be certified by the FAA for production.

SmartRunway provides visual and aural alerts to pilots about runway and taxi locations and SmartLanding informs pilots of unstable approaches and long landings, when an aircraft lands too far down the runway to safely stop. SmartRunway helps break the chain of events that can lead to a runway incursion by providing timely advisories -- aural and/or visual -- to the flight crew about aircraft position compared to runway locations in the database.  SmartRunway is the next generation of Honeywell's Runway Awareness
and Advisory System (RAAS). SmartRunway offers two additional advisories over RAAS, as well as visual advisories.  Boeing recently announced they are offering SmartRunway as an option on the 747-8 and 777 aircraft, and will offer it on the 737 in early 2010.

SmartLanding addresses the chain of events that can lead to a runway excursion event by notifying pilots through aural and/or visual alerts if the aircrafhas not met established safety criteria on approach, to help prevent the aircraft from landing too hard or exiting the runway from the end or the sides.