Originally Posted by
AndoniP
Sounds like they've just used the wing / cockpit / whatever technology and design from the 787 and put it on the 777X.
It shares a lot of the technology indeed. Rockwell Collins and GE were the big winner here for the avionics contracts (Honeywell, not so much).
AIMS will be gone. The
CCS from the 787 will be inherited. Some of the old architecture will stay though. The 777 is famous (with avionics nerds like me) to be the only commercial airliner to use the Arinc 629 bus on a large scale.
What I really like is that this is the first commercial airliner (
AFAIK) which has touch screens. If you know the 777 automated checklists and the 787 FMS/MCDU (which will be adopted for the 777X), it makes a lot of sense to control with touch. Obviously there will be fallback control in case touch fails.
777 has always been my favorite airliner and I am happy to see it live on in a new outfit.