Hi TOD
Sounds like a good system, but I think the rw world is lagging behind in its FMS technology generally. Not having flown large FW but I presume that the FMS has a much more integral part to play in the aircraft systems. Presumably you have 2 boxes in case of failure etc? Even the latest RW cockpits seem to have 1 FMS as standard.
To indicate how far behind we are, I am currently battling with our FMS database provider (and have been for over a year) to get all the approaches and transitions into the database for the Aberdeen area. At the start, there were no approaches in for many of the airfields North of Edinburgh, and even now we only have some of the TRANSs (intermediate approaches) in the system even at airfields with no radar (so procedural approach). Even at Aberdeen we only have the final approach track in the system, with no TRANSs.
One day we will catch up (but then you will have moved on!)
HC