Facsimile Displays

Why use an expensive OEM flight display in your simulator?

Thomas Electronics is a specialist in the design and manufacture of facsimile flight displays, offering performance identical to the OEM flight unit but with major cost and availability benefits.  All facsimile displays manufactured by Thomas Electronics are identical in form, fit and function to the original part.

Thomas Electronics’ specialist simulation display engineers are specialists in interfacing existing and legacy technology to the most current digital signals and technologies, while managing obsolescence issues from the beginning of manufacture.  Thomas Electronics can evaluate your current simulation display requirements and will offer specialist advice on the most efficient and cost-effective approach.


Your Advantages:

  • Significant cost savings compared to OEM flight unit
  • No impact on flight unit inventories
  • Improved support turnaround time
  • Increased video performance in off-axis blacks utilizing new LED backlight technologies
  • Improved viewing angles using avionic grade light filtering techniques
  • Dynamic contrast / dimming
  • Custom designed control interface through PC terminal or dedicated controller
  • Reduction in power consumption, heat generation and weight
  • Plug-and-play equivalent of the original

Test Equipment

Thomas Electronics also builds test equipment for future fault diagnosis of displays.  Test equipment can greatly accelerate the servicing process, and will significantly reduce product down-time.