




Other components include two air data attitude and heading reference systems (ADAHRS), two data concentrators, two magnetometers, two WAAS GPS receivers, two nav/com radios with a PS Engineering audio panel, a transponder and the S-TEC Intelliflight 1950 Integrated Digital Flight Control System (DFCS). The user interface for a basic SmartDeck system consists of one primary flight display (PFD), one multi-function display (MFD), one flight display controller (FDC), and a center console unit (CCU) display system. CMC has continued the development and, as of March 2012, was expecting to announce a launch customer in the near future. This is achieved by combining a number of L-3’s situational awareness technologies into the system.Īt the National Business Aviation Association annual convention in October 2010, CMC Electronics announced that it had acquired the SmartDeck technology from L-3 and L-3 ceased all development. The major design objectives of integration and ease of use were achieved by designing the menu structure with a “three-clicks-or-less” philosophy similar to the Apple iPod and by incorporating navigation, weather, traffic and terrain avoidance, communication, flight controls, engine monitoring and enhanced vision into one cockpit system. L-3 created SmartDeck as an alternative to other glass cockpit systems currently on the market. These technologies are often able to offer pilots more flight information than would be available in a conventional style cockpit and many feature a high level of automation that can aid the pilot in navigation and system monitoring. As computer technology advances, glass cockpit systems are declining in cost and becoming available in smaller general aviation aircraft. SmartDeck is one of the many systems available today known as a “ glass cockpit.” Popularized by large transport category aircraft in the 1980s, the glass cockpit is a high technology cockpit configuration in which the traditional flight instruments and gauges are replaced by computer screens that combine information into an organized and user friendly format. and acquired in 2010 by Esterline CMC Electronics through an exclusive licensing agreement. L-3 SmartDeck - is a fully integrated cockpit system originally developed by L-3 Avionics Systems. JSTOR ( July 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
