Duncan Aviation Encourages Updating to 6.1 Honeywell Flight Management System

LINCOLN, NEB. — Duncan Aviation is encouraging its customers with a Honeywell Aerospace FMZ-2000 Flight Management System to make sure their software is upgraded to version 6.1 or higher prior to September 30, 2022.

After September 2022, owner/operators who have not upgraded their software to version 6.1 or higher will lose access to the Nav Database.

“Once you lose it, owner/operators won’t be able to fly flight plans that involve GPS coordinated waypoints. For all intents and purposes, without access to the Nav Database, those aircraft will no longer be Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) aircraft,” says Senior Avionics Representative Adrian Chene. “So, when Air Traffic Control says, for instance, to proceed to Echo and clear to final, you’ll have to look up the coordinates for Echo and manually enter them. In this day and age, when you’re flying a jet, those waypoints come up far too quickly for pilots to waste long minutes searching for a waypoint’s coordinates, cross-checking charts, and fiddling around to manually enter them.”

How owner/operators upgrade to version 6.1 of the software depends on the avionics configuration in the aircraft. For some aircraft, the flight management system equipment itself will need to be upgraded, and for others, only the software version will require an upgrade.

For more information about upgrading the software for the Honeywell FMZ-2000 Flight Management System to version 6.1, contact a Duncan Aviation Avionics Sales Representative (https://duncanaviation.aero/services/avionics-installation/contacts). To access the Honeywell Service Information Letter (SIL) D201604000032 Revision 4, visit

(https://aerospace.honeywell.com/us/en/learn/products/cockpit-systems-and-displays/fmz-2000-version-6-1-upgrade). 

To schedule the upgrade at one of Duncan Aviation’s Satellite Shops, call either

• Regional Avionics Sales Manager Western John Spellmeyer, +1 316.214.8867
• Regional Avionics Sales Manager Eastern Michael Kussatz, +1 402.475.2611

About Duncan Aviation

Duncan Aviation is an aircraft service provider supporting the aviation needs of business aircraft operators, government agencies, and other aircraft service providers. Services include major and minor airframe inspections, engine maintenance, major retrofits for cabin and cockpit avionics systems, full paint and interior services, engineering and certification services, fabrication and manufacturing services, and preowned aircraft sales and acquisitions. Duncan Aviation also has international aircraft components solutions experts available 24/7/365 at +1 402.475.4125 who can handle any aircraft system problem with immediate exchanges, rotables, loaners or avionics/instrument/accessory repairs and overhauls. Complete service facilities are located in Battle Creek, Michigan; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Provo, Utah. We also have dozens of other facilities strategically located throughout the United States to provide customers with scheduled regional support and the quickest response possible to avionics, engine and airframe Aircraft On Ground (AOG) situations.

For more information about any of Duncan Aviation’s services, call +1 402.475.2611 or visit https://www.DuncanAviation.aero/services