Synthetic Vision System: Reduced minima for approaches and operational benefits for airlines

The Synthetic Vision System (SVS) provides crews with a 3D synthetic representation of the world around the aircraft, either on head-down cockpit displays or on the pilot’s HUD or TopMax helmet-mounted sight display. It gives pilots better situational awareness and helps them fly stabilised approaches, with flight path, airspeed and other visual cues overlaid on the actual view of the terrain. See: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/aerospace/flight-deck-avionics-equipment-functions/thales-synthetic-vision-system-svs