Improved Software For Pitot Probes And FACEC Capability Unveiled

The design and engineering teams at Eclipse have been hard at work to bring you several great new opportunities to upgrade your Eclipse Jet and reduce your operating costs, and now Eclipse is announcing the availability of improved software for the Pitot / AOA and Pitot / Static system.

This culminates an intensive 18-month effort between EAI and Harco Labs to improve the performance of the probes under all conditions. This much-anticipated upgrade will be available at the EAI Chicago and Albuquerque Service Centers beginning the week of September 15th, and at all Eclipse Authorized Service Centers beginning the week of September 22nd. The introductory price of this upgrade is only $1,150.

Nearly 5 years in the making, EAI now has improved FADEC software available. This upgrade includes several safety enhancing features including improved fault tolerance as well as increased transient limits to prevent nuisance exceedance messages.

Eclipse is also announcing the Arrival of IFMS 2.08. This upgrade provides a host of new features including:

• Improved Flight Management Approach functionality, allowing early arming of RNAV approach once in terminal area and improved transitions from FMS to FMS Approach.
• Improved Flight Plan modifications and activations, such as Direct-to operations to IAF and FP activation from the route tab ensuring smooth transitions and eliminating unnecessary discontinuities in the flight plan.
• Improved GPS interface to prevent loss of NAV for Pseudo Range errors and almanac updates, also improved interface to FMS for approach selections.
• Improved OBS - increased Magnetic Variation accuracy when in Track or North up modes.
• Improved Flight Planning for published procedures, including adding the ability to delete waypoints from a published arrival.
• Updated Magnetic Variation Tables Corrected issue with insufficient WAAS satellites causing loss of all NAV during approach.
• Fuel gauge display modified to have a red line at zero fuel. GPS Status page updates to include correcting altitude value to use EGM height and display APPROACH for all approach modes Added direction arrows to Holding pattern MAP display to help with pilot directional awareness.
• GPS enhancement to improve SBAS availability at higher latitudes GPS Improved Horizontal Protection Limit calculations when working with EGNOS satellite constellations.

IFMS 2.08 also supports PPG windshields in IFMS aircraft and includes new BIO and ACS software.

Eclipse Service Centers have returned the in-service data, and the company says the robustness of the Eclipse Jet systems allow them to extend the inspection interval of the Icephobic paint fourfold, from 50 hours to 200 flight hours or 12 months, whichever occurs first. They have also added additional "grace periods" to many scheduled maintenance items to allow operators additional flexibility in planning their maintenance.

Also, in response to customer requests, EAI has developed new procedures that will allow the repair of minor damage to de-ice boots, eliminating the need for costly boot replacement.

FMI: www.eclipseaerospace.net