Max-Viz to Fly Ten Most Challenging Approaches in USA to Demonstrate EVS Products

Paris Air Show, France (June 15, 2003) Max-Viz Inc. is committed to flying the ten most challenging approaches in the U.S. to demonstrate the many safety benefits of Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS). This announcement was released today at the Paris Air Show. Max-Viz is using the company's Cessna 421T aircraft equipped with EVS and a witness camera as well as full recording capability to complete these flights.

Tuesday night, June 10th, the first flight took place in Sun Valley, Idaho. Gregg Fawkes, President of Max-Viz, said, "With EVS, this approach may lose its reputation as one of the most challenging. While the witness camera shows total darkness, EVS shows the terrain in striking detail."

Flight-testing will be conducted throughout the summer of 2003. Results will be posted at max-viz.com and sent to industry media in time for NBAA in October. "We want to pick the business aircraft pilots' least favorite approaches to fly at night or in difficult conditions," said Max-Viz Director Flight Operations, Dick Hansen. "We have some ideas about which airports to include but are also soliciting suggestions from the bizjet pilot community itself."

Max-Viz Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based company, is the industry leader in the design, development and manufacture of Enhanced Vision Systems for the aviation industry covering a broad range of aircraft, including helicopters, business jets and commercial air transports.

Max-Viz enhanced vision systems, using a Max-viz patented image processing technology, incorporate an uncooled infrared system using wide field-of-view sensors to generate video-like images of the area in front of the aircraft in flight and on the ground. This can then be displayed on any video-capable cockpit display. In poor visibility conditions, such as darkness, smog, haze and smoke, pilots are allowed to autonomously ensure the safety of operations with EVS. Many industry experts consider EVS key to prevention of CFIT accidents and to early detection of runway incursions.

EVS improves situational awareness and safety in the air and on the ground using state-of-the-art, real-time, infrared sensor technologies.

Flight into Sun Valley, Idaho (June 10, 2003) EVS image with witness camera image in inset