Goodrich TAWS Certified

The FAA has awarded Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval for the Goodrich LandMark Terrain Awareness and Warning System.

The LandMark TAWS depicts surrounding terrain, runways and such ground-based obstacles as towers and buildings. Incorporating position data from a GPS receiver, aircraft altitude, and configuration information, the system also will alert pilots to possible safety hazards such as premature descents, reduced required terrain clearance, imminent terrain impact, excessive rates of descent, negative climb rates and altitude loss after takeoff.

According Goodrich (Booth 1601), LandMark will soon be available as part of a total situational awareness package on its new "i-line" Multi Function Display, which also features moving map, weather, traffic and lightning data.

Goodrich Avionics Systems president Brian Brandewie terms LandMark a "cost-effective and easily integrated" system and hails its "high-resolution terrain depiction on the widest array of displays." The company says that, when coupled with the Goodrich Radar Graphics Computer model RGC-350, LandMark users benefit from improved terrain contouring, traffic and lightning data, and "compatibility with almost any other weather radar indicator."

Concurrent with the TSO approval for LandMark, Goodrich received supplemental type certification for the system on a company-owned King Air C-90.

By David Rimmer