Air India's New B-777s and B-737NGs to Include Honeywell Avionics

Air India has selected Honeywell to provide a suite of avionics products for its new B-777s and B-737NGs including Honeywell's next-generation weather radar for its 777s.

Both Air India's 777s and 737s will have Honeywell's Quantum Line CNS (communications navigation surveillance) system, high-frequency radio, TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system), solid-state flight data recorder, solid-state cockpit voice recorder (SSCVR), flight data acquisition and management system (FDAMS), and emergency locator transmitter.  The 737s also will have Honeywell's RDR-4B weather radar, ACARS (aircraft communication addressing and reporting system), and the 777s will get Honeywell's RDR-4000 weather radar and MCS 7000 satcom.

The RDR-4000 weather radar's 3-D scanning technology has several new capabilities including its terrain-based digital ground clutter extraction for removing ground returns without the losses and delays associated with ground suppression filters, and automatic compensation for the earth's curvature to present a truer weather picture out to 320 nautical miles.

Air India will receive 18 B-737NGs between 2006 and 2009, and 23 B-777 aircraft between 2007 and 2010.  08-06-2007.

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