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Honeywell Expands Flight Management System Guided Visuals Offering to Europe
Honeywell Expands Flight Management System Guided Visuals Offering to Europe
Honeywell technology helps pilots make safer, more stabilized approaches to challenging airports.
PHOENIX, October 15, 2025 – Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced it is expanding its Flight Management System (FMS) Guided Visuals offering into Europe to equip pilots with greater situational awareness and safer approaches while flying into challenging airports. The technology improves the likelihood of a stable approach by offering a precise, repeatable flight path that can be fully coupled to the autopilot or flown manually.
Since 2023, Honeywell’s FMS Guided Visual (FGV) approaches have been available in North America and provide lateral and vertical guidance to the runway during visual approaches. Now, in addition to more than 30 North American airports that currently use the technology, the FMS offering will soon be available at six European airport/runway combinations, some of which are procedure overlays for existing Visual Maneuvers with Prescribed Tracks.
“Stabilized approaches offer pilots a range of benefits, from preventing overbanking and potential stall conditions to helping maintain situational awareness in conditions that make it difficult to identify the runway. They also offer the added ability to prevent steep approaches, which can otherwise lead to additional brake wear, noise from maximum thrust reversers, and runway overrun,” said Jim Johnson, senior manager of Flight Technical Services at Honeywell Aerospace Technologies. “By integrating our FMS technology, pilots can now make a safer, more stabilized approach to challenging airports in a more efficient manner.”
Today, more than 600 customers use Honeywell FGV approaches on their aircraft in North America. Since the technology’s integration, pilots flying into select challenging North American airports have told Honeywell that FGV approaches provide a consistent and reliable flight path to runways that do not have a precision approach.
“Honeywell has taken all the variability out of the visual approach. It allows me to fly visual approaches with the same precision and passenger comfort we experience using Instrument Approach Procedures. It’s a fantastic improvement to our safety profile and helps us deliver a safe, comfortable approach for our passengers. Given FGV procedures’ low-cost, easy implementation and significant contribution to safety, there really is no reason not to use an FGV whenever it’s available.”
- Mark McIntyre, a G650 captain
FGV approaches are available as an addition to current FMS Navigation Database subscriptions and require no hardware or software updates to use. They are titled "RNAV H" and may be loaded directly from the FMS navigation database. The "H" is used to differentiate it from other RNAV instrument approaches.
For more information and a list of all airports with FGV approaches available, click here.
About Honeywell
Products and services from Honeywell Aerospace Technologies are found on virtually every commercial, defense and space aircraft, and in many terrestrial systems. The Aerospace Technologies business unit builds aircraft engines, cockpit and cabin electronics, wireless connectivity systems, mechanical components, power systems, and more. Its hardware and software solutions create more fuel-efficient aircraft, more direct and on-time flights and safer skies and airports. For more information, visit aerospace.honeywell.com or follow Honeywell Aerospace Technologies on LinkedIn.
Honeywell is an integrated operating company serving a broad range of industries and geographies around the world. Our business is aligned with three powerful megatrends – automation, the future of aviation and energy transition – underpinned by our Honeywell Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Forge IoT platform. As a trusted partner, we help organizations solve the world's toughest, most complex challenges, providing actionable solutions and innovations through our Aerospace Technologies, Industrial Automation, Building Automation and Energy and Sustainability Solutions business segments that help make the world smarter and safer as well as more secure and sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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