Honeywell Primus Epic® CDS/R

Honeywell's Primus Epic Control Display System/Retrofit (CDS/R)

Honeywell's Primus Epic Control Display System/Retrofit (CDS/R) provides a flexible and highly integrated avionics suite for equipping aircraft flight decks.

Primus Epic® Control Display System/Retrofit

The Primus Epic CDS/R integrates with existing equipment, whether Honeywell or from other manufacturers, offering an economical and operationally advanced system. Its flexibility allows for easy aircraft updates to meet future FAA mandates.

Compared to traditional electromechanical or cathode ray tube (CRT)-based systems, the Primus Epic CDS/R offers substantial reductions in weight, wire count, and power consumption.

Available Display Options

The Primus Epic CDS/R offers several options to enhance situational awareness:

• Jeppesen Charts*: Electronic Jeppesen charts and maps are displayed on large Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays (AMLCD). These include airport, departure, arrival, approach, noise, NOTAMs, and airspace charts. Displayed charts can be split to show header, profile, or minima information in a separate window, with independent panning and zooming for each window.
• XM® Graphical Uplink Weather*: This regional weather system enhances safety through enroute flight optimization. It is a real-time advanced flight deck weather system that improves weather avoidance and diversion capabilities.

Future Enhancements

The Primus Epic CDS/R is designed for growth, allowing flight decks to adapt to changing needs and requirements:

• Terrain and Advanced Map Display: Provides increased situational awareness with terrain and visual reference aids for airspace, airways, intersections, and geo-political boundaries.
• SmartView™ Synthetic Vision System: Honeywell's award-winning system combines terrain data and head-up display technology to offer pilots a continuous view of their flight path and terrain on the primary flight display.

System Benefits

Designed for Improved Safety:

• Enhances situational awareness.
• Enables strategic route planning.
• Maintains use of Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) and other critical sensor data on the Multifunction Display (MFD) while displaying electronic charts, maps, and uplink weather information.

Designed for Flexibility and Efficiency:

• Scalable system architecture.
• Flexible interface design integrates with legacy systems.
• Reduces weight, wiring, and power requirements.
• Multiple display configurations are available:

Two DU-1080 LCD Configuration:

Offers the same basic benefits of enhanced situational awareness and growth capabilities as a full flight deck system.

Three DU-1080 LCD Configuration:

Provides full flight deck integration of Primary Flight Displays (PFD) and Multifunction Displays (MFD), offering operational and growth capabilities similar to advanced aircraft.

Four DU-1080 LCD Configuration:

Features full flight deck integration with two PFDs and MFDs, enhancing redundancy and pilot situational awareness.

Five DU-1080 LCD Configuration:

Offers full flight deck integration with two PFDs, two MFDs, and engine instruments (available on L-382G).

Designed for Easy Maintenance:

• Reduces maintenance costs and downtime by replacing older electromechanical and CRT instruments and displays.
• Increases dispatchability through enhanced redundancy.
• Improves reliability with a substantial reduction in Line Replaceable Units (LRUs).

System Features

8"x10" Liquid Crystal Displays

Honeywell's DU-1080 liquid crystal display unit provides crisp, clear, full-color AMLCD electronic flight instrument displays with excellent contrast ratios, ensuring readability even in bright sunlight. These displays have logged over five million flight hours on forward fit and retrofit aircraft platforms.

IC-1080 Integrated Avionics Computer

The heart of the Primus Epic CDS/R is based on Honeywell's reliable Primus 1000/2000 IC-600 and IC-615 integrated computers. The IC-1080 ensures seamless functionality for retrofit aircraft.

Advanced File Graphics Server (AFGS)

The optional AFGS is a computing platform that combines advanced graphics generation with mass data storage for flight display applications. It generates custom graphics, performs high-speed processing, and provides high-capacity data storage for electronic charts, maps, and uplinked weather information. The AFGS enables the display of approach charts, terminal maps, Standard Instrument Departure (SIDs) charts, Standard Terminal Arrival (STARs) charts, and the map application. The map feature displays uplinked weather data on a moving map. AFGS applications are controlled via drop-down menus on the DU-1080 and the MC-800 multifunction controller.

XM® Receiver and Antenna

Honeywell's XM data link weather receiver delivers high-speed graphical weather to the CDS/R flight deck when equipped with the optional AFGS. The XM receiver enhances Honeywell's datalink weather receivers by providing Honeywell's Weather Information Network (WINN) at any altitude, including on the ground, across the continental United States.

Options to Round Out Your Aircraft

Honeywell offers various options to upgrade your flight deck:

• FMZ-2000/CD-820 Flight Management System (optional integrated GPS)
• CAS 67/66 Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)
• Mark V/VII/VIII Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS)
• Runway Awareness and Alerting System (RAAS) (Requires MK V or MK VII EGPWS)
• Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) compatible air data computers (AZ-252/AZ-960/AZ-800/810)
• LASEREF family of inertial reference systems
• Primus II integrated radio system
• Primus 880/660/440 weather radar system
• LSZ-860 lightning sensor system (LSS)
• MCS-7000 Aero I and Aero H+ satellite communications system (SATCOM), or Iridium-based Airsat 1 satellite communications system
• JetMap® II moving map system
• AIS 2000 satellite TV system
• GNSSU Global Positioning System (GPS)
• DL-950 navigation data loader

Worldwide Customer Support

Honeywell avionics are based on proven technology, offering high reliability and simplified maintenance. Product support services include scheduled maintenance and pilot training courses. Customer support engineers and service centers are located globally to provide efficient and responsive support.