Oct 17, 2012– Neuilly-sur-Seine,France (Techreleased) –Thales announces that Atlantic Airways has selected the package of Thales Avionics equipment and cockpit technologies for installation on its Airbus A319.
The selected equipment consists of Alternate Supplier Furnished Equipment (SFE) and Buyer Furnished Equipment (BFE) for which FLI chose Thales against other vendors.
Under the terms of this selection, Thales has equipped Atlantic Airways aircraft with the new generation dual Flight Management System (FMS), the new Digital Head Up Displays System (D-HUDS) installed in Captain side, the latest integrated ACSS surveillance suite including TCAS, TAWS and Transponder functions, Low-Range Radio-Altimeters (LRRA), Pitot Probes and Angle Of Attack sensors, and Kannad’s Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT).
This avionics package will allow Atlantic Airways to perform low RNP (Required Navigation Performance) approaches and landings at VAGAR (EKVG) – Faroe Islands
