Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Gulfstream G550 operators can now install the Klatt Works smoke-assured vision enhanced display (SAVED) oxygen mask in their jets under a new FAA supplemental type certificate (STC). This marks the first business jet STC for the Klatt Works mask.&nbsp;Klatt Works partnered with L2 Aviation on the G550 program, and the next STC will be for the G650.
The SAVED mask incorporates a head-up display (HUD) that helps pilots view critical flight information when smoke obscures cockpit instruments and avionics.
First approved in the Boeing 777F freighter, the SAVED mask combines a high-resolution, low-latency display with a feed from the aircraft’s external enhanced vision system camera and HUD symbology generator. The concentrator unit overlays camera imagery with flight data and projects it onto miniature augmented reality displays embedded in the oxygen mask. For the pilot, the result is a clear view of attitude, altitude, airspeed, and the camera input, even if smoke obscures the windscreen and instrument panel.
“Bringing SAVED to the G550 platform represents an important step forward in cockpit survivability for business aviation,” said Klatt Works CEO Nate Klatt. “SAVED was purpose-built for rare but catastrophic events where dense smoke eliminates forward visibility. By integrating directly into the oxygen mask [that] pilots are already trained to use in an emergency, the system is immediately available under stress and requires no additional deployment steps.”

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