The Next Generation of Total Aircraft Integration

The Eclipse 500’s flight deck is both highly sophisticated and greatly simplified. Avio NG Total Aircraft Integration™ offers unmatched avionics functionality that significantly reduces pilot workload by simplifying tasks, generating useful information, managing systems, and assisting with troubleshooting. The pilot views all flight parameters, engine and system performance, navigation aids, checklists, charts, and more in high resolution. Even the radios are integrated into Avio NG, eliminating bulky tuning units and simplifying radio management.

The cockpit features two primary flight displays (PFD) and one multi-function display (MFD) that are controlled by selection keys and knobs on the displays. Dual Garmin^® GPS 400W units, located below each PFD, equip Eclipse 500 operators with a comprehensive GPS navigation solution.

Avio NG provides unmatched:

Safety - Integrated functionality acts as a virtual copilot, presenting the pilot with checklists and advanced navigation and avionics information, helping to improve safety and dramatically reduce pilot workload, especially in single-pilot operation.

Reliability - State-of-the-art digital technology allows vastly superior systems reliability and redundancy.

Value - Next-generation digital avionics include demonstrated airline reliability and systems capability unparalleled in general aviation.

Adaptability - An open architecture platform incorporates the migration of technology envisioned with the FAA’s Next-Generation Air Transportation System integrated plan (Next Gen).

Garmin GPS Technology

Avio NG includes dual Garmin GPS 400W units that provide enroute and terminal GPS navigational guidance with autopilot coupling and Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) capabilities for Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) approaches. The units also offer integrated navigational source selection and flight path overlay incorporated into Avio NG’s navigational displays.

The GPS 400W units enable delivery of Flight Management System (FMS) functionality when they are combined with the Eclipse 500’s integrated performance computer, weight and balance tools, and moving map features. These integrated functions also provide the navigational capability for private and commercial operations worldwide.

In addition to Garmin International, Eclipse Aviation has partnered on Avio NG with leading avionics suppliers Innovative Solutions & Support Inc., Honeywell, Chelton Flight Systems, and PS Engineering Inc.

Flying the Eclipse 500®

Preflight

As your virtual copilot, Avio NG goes to work as soon as power is applied to the Eclipse 500, bringing all aircraft systems online and confirming normal operation. Avio NG prompts electronic checklists, calculates weight and balance, determines performance, and even activates the airspeed targets and N1 engine settings for takeoff. When the cabin door closes, Avio NG verifies that the cabin is sealed, automatically adjusts the independent cabin and cockpit zone temperatures, and prepares the pressurization schedule for the mission ahead. A copilot that does exactly what needs to be done, without needing to be told—that’s Avio NG. That’s Total Aircraft Integration.

Takeoff/Climb

Even before your wheels leave the ground, Avio NG ensures proper flap and landing gear configuration and systems setup for takeoff. Don’t worry about thrust level detents, either, because Avio NG manages the redundant FADECs to provide the maximum safe thrust available for the conditions present. As you engage the gear handle and flaps, Avio NG commands the gear and flaps to retract, then monitors their positions throughout the entire sequence. You’ll climb to 35,000 ft in just 22 minutes, or all the way up to 41,000 ft without bothersome and inefficient step climbs. Avio NG automatically maintains comfortable temperature and cabin pressure the entire climb and presents a big-picture, moving map pointing you to your destination.

Approach

Avio NG simplifies this critical stage by providing advisory vertical navigation cues, maintaining airspeed with autothrottle, slowly lowering cabin pressure, automatically balancing fuel, and making the autopilot available to fly approach. A Jeppesen™ approach chart is available for electronic display, showing your aircraft position on the chart itself. If icing conditions exist, the flick of one switch tells Avio NG to cycle the pneumatic de-ice boots and heat the engine inlets. As you approach the field, Avio NG verifies that landing gear is down and locked and flaps are set.

Virutal Total Aircraft Integration

Beyond the Cockpit: Total Aircraft Integration™

Designed by Eclipse Aviation exclusively for the Eclipse 500, Avio NG provides Total Aircraft Integration through integral, redundant computer systems and an advanced power distribution system. Avio NG applies integration technology to the entire aircraft, including avionics, engine operation, fuel system, flaps, landing gear, cabin pressure and temperature, and much more. The core of Avio NG includes the combination of the Eclipse 500's Aircraft Computer Systems (ACS) and Electronic Power Distribution System (EPDS). These systems provide Avio's centralized control by processing aircraft systems data and using embedded logic to deliver control signals throughout the jet.

The ACS continuously queries aircraft systems, which, in turn, constantly report back their status. As the ACS initiates a command, it relies on the EPDS to deliver power to execute.

The EPDS, designed to 10^-9 reliability levels, features six buses fed by four independent power sources, and uses electronic circuit breakers.

Flight Deck

Designed by Pilots for Pilots

Experienced pilots will marvel at Avio NG's sophisticated capability. Pilots new to jet aircraft will appreciate how simple the system is to use. That's because the streamlined glass cockpit was designed by pilots.

Two primary flight displays (PFD) and one multi-function display (MFD) are controlled by selection keys and knobs on the displays. The PFD and MFD provide the pilot with a view of all flight parameters, engine and system performance, navigation aids, checklists, charts, and more in high resolution. Dual Garmin 400W GPS units, located below each PFD, provide Eclipse 500 operators with a comprehensive GPS navigation solution. The cockpit is comfortable, too - sidesticks free up space and increase visibility of the instrumentation panel, and seats and rudder pedals are adjustable.

Coupled with the Eclipse 500's integrated performance computer, weight and balance tools, and moving map, the GPS 400W units enable delivery of Flight Management System (FMS) functionality.

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