The current received-wisdom is that new avionics must either make money (by saving it by permitting improved approaches and routings), for the airline or improve safety. The improvement of safety is obviously important but difficult to quantity in commercial terms until the equipment is a mandated-fit. Even taking a "making money" strategy as the advantage of new products is not easy when there are huge infrastructure and regulatory hurdles to jump...
Of course there must be opportunities for
saving money and providing the same or even improved functionality: I hear the words "fusion" and "integration" a lot. Which hopefully will improve the quality of data and its presentation, and reduce the cockpit space and hence weight of such equipment which all helps reduce costs...
So am I right in suggesting the next great innovation (from a commercial standpoint!) will be one that
- improves safety
- makes money through permitting improved operations
- requires minimal certification effort
- reduces equipment overhead ?
I'm not asking for much
hugel