![]() ![]() Each IDU-680 display features synthetic vision, built-in flight management system for navigation and communication radios, HTAWS (helicopter terrain awareness and warning system) and geo-referenced hover vector. The full EFIS upgrade includes four large-format, night-vision-goggle (NVG)-compatible IDU-680 displays that replace all standard analog gauges in the legacy UH-60 cockpit. ![]() Credit: Genesys Aerosystems UH-60 legacy flight deck before upgrade. When we decide something is important for the business we’ll pursue it pretty aggressively.”įull Upgrade UH-60A flight deck with EFIS upgrade. “We have in the past done a full STC certification with EFIS and engine interface, etc., in 6-9 months. ![]() “We’re very flexible,” says Jamie Luster, Genesys Aerosystems director of sales and marketing. While available as a complete cockpit avionics suite, the system’s building block design provides Black Hawk operators with the option of an incremental upgrade path to support constrained budgets and installation time frames, Genesys says. Depending on a facility’s capabilities, the suite can be installed in about eight weeks at a cost of “under $2 million,” the company says. Genesys, based in Mineral Wells, Texas, and XP Services of Tullahoma, Tennessee, obtained FAA supplemental type certification (STC) of the electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) upgrade in October 2020. Genesys Aerosystems, formed from the management buyout of Chelton Flight Systems and S-TEC Corp., from Cobham Avionics in 2014, is ramping up marketing of its modernized avionics suite for special mission and foreign military UH-60A/EH-60A Black Hawks. ![]()
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