ABS Jets—a Honeywell authorized channel partner based in Prague, Czech Republic, and Bratislava, Slovakia—has signed an agreement to retrofit its Embraer Legacy business jets with Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar. The system operates completely hands-free, requiring none of the tilt or gain adjustments on the flight deck needed by legacy weather radars.
“With innovative, automated technologies that provide a more comprehensive view of the weather on a given flightpath, the RDR-7000 will allow our pilots to focus on flying and at the same time increase passenger comfort and safety, while helping to reduce diversion and delays,” said Stefan Kukura, Legacy chief pilot with ABS Jets. “We are happy to not only be the first customer in Europe, but also the first MRO business to implement the RDR-7000 on its own fleet. Our implementation experience will benefit us as we look to offer this upgrade to our MRO customers.”
First certified in 2021, the RDR-7000 automatically scans the sky from the ground to 60,000 feet, and out to a range of 320 nm. The radar can also detect a second storm front that may lurk behind the initial one that would otherwise be masked in older systems. It also provides turbulence detection with more accuracy and at greater ranges.