Multiple Agencies Approve SVT For The Light Jet

Civil aviation authorities have certified the use of Synthetic Vision Technology in Embraer’s Phenom 300 executive jet. The FAA, EASA, and the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil – ANAC) have all issued certifications for using Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT) aboard the Phenom 300. Embraer says that makes the aircraft the first in the light jet category to offer this advanced cockpit feature.

Out The Windscreen

The SVT recreates a visual topographic landscape from the system’s terrain-alerting database via sophisticated graphics modeling, which simulates what the pilot would see with the naked eye in broad daylight. It is particularly helpful in fog, rain, haze, darkness or instrument flight conditions. The resulting virtual reality display offers pilots a supplemental 3-D depiction of ground, water, obstacles, airports, and traffic.

Synthetic Vision

“Embraer makes every effort to provide unique solutions for customers, and the Phenom 300 is the only aircraft in the light jet category to offer the SVT technology,” said Luís Carlos Affonso, Embraer Executive Vice President, Executive Jets. “This technology provides excellent situational awareness even when flying in conditions of reduced visibility, safely guiding pilots through terrain critical airspaces and airports.” With a color-coded landscape, clearly showing those areas where potential flight-into terrain risks exist, via amber or red overlays, towers or other obstacles that may interfere with the flight path are color-highlighted and displayed with the appropriate symbology. SVT works with Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and Traffic Information Service (TIS) technologies to depict targets in 3-D perspective, allowing a real-time assessment of how close and how high they are. Using familiar TCAS symbology that grows larger as it gets nearer, SVT makes traffic conflicts easier to see and identify.

Phenom 300

SVT is a key feature of the Prodigy flight deck, and is available for retrofitting at a minimum downtime. Garmin’s fully integrated Prodigy avionics suite was exclusively developed for the Phenom jets, and incorporates Embraer’s extensive experience in developing cockpits for commercial and defense aircraft. Enhanced situational awareness, glass cockpit with large displays, state-of-the-art avionics and single pilot operation are the design drivers behind every detail of this flight deck.

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