FlytX tactile large display flight deck for aircraft & rotorcraft

A new timeline concept has been introduced to create the link between flight phases and associated necessary tasks to be completed. Colors and contrast were chosen to decrease visual fatigue while presenting clear indications for alerts. Additionally, touchscreen capacities enable new ways of interactions with avionics. Pie charts are a new way of displaying and selecting menus. 

It provides precious decision-making help and assistance to restore time margins in emergency situations and reduce workload complexity of a large variety of operators' mission profiles. The use of the FMS has been strongly simplified by direct interaction with the flight plan, on the digital map or on points of interest. Pilots will be able to focus ever more on their tasks to enhance safety and make the mission more efficient.

Thales FlytX achieves a 30 to 40% reduction in size, weight and power consumption compared to legacy avionics. This decrease is the result of the IMA's strong integration of avionics applications such as FMS (Flight Management System), HTAWS (Helicopter Terrain Awareness and Warning System) and RMS (Radio Management System) inside the display. There is no more need for specific hardware and the number of LRUs (Line Replaceable Units) has been dramatically reduced. In the meantime, the virtualization of control panels, moving from buttons to touch interactions, has brought additional gains in weight and LRUs.

Advanced mission functions, utilities functions or other eyes out functions are typical candidates. Thales IMA technology is the major differentiator as regards traditional market solutions whose hardware and software design optimization is conducted at the expense of the openness and seamless capacity to grow. Thanks to a specific toolbox, OEMs can easily customize the HSI (Human System Interface), colors, system pages and 3D views to meet specific requirements.

The FlytX solution has been developed to be integrated to the connected aircraft environment. It can securely link avionics systems with operation centers, other service providers, and the open world (third-party mission applications) making the cockpit more mission-oriented and flexible. FlytX can display and interact securely with a connected tablet (e.g. Electronic Flight Bag) thanks to a Cyber-by-design architecture which guarantees a strict separation between critical flight information and data coming from open-world sources (autonomous IT bubble).