Dassault Falcon Announces EASy Upgrade

Dassault Falcon Jet will upgrade the EASy flight deck of its Falcon 900, 2000 and 7X business jets to include synthetic vision and other new features, the company announced at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) in Orlando. The EASy system is based on Honeywell’s Primus Epic avionics suite.

Olivier Villa, Dassault senior vice president for civil aircraft, said the company has launched EASy Phase II, involving both hardware and software changes. In addition to synthetic vision, new capabilities will be controller-pilot datalink (CPDLC) and ADS-B Out, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) and Localizer Performance with Vertical (LPV) approaches and a “paperless” cockpit.

Phase II certification for the Falcon 900 series is expected by the end of 2009. Certification for the Falcon 2000 and 7X models will follow in mid-2010.