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UAL EFB Program. Captain Joe Burns Director – Flight Standards and Technology United Airlines. Agenda:. Our EFB Drivers- Navigation Charts Flight Manuals Aircraft Communications Cabin Surveillance Safety Security Weather. Air_Net/EFB Components. Back-office Servers and infrastructure
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UAL EFB Program Captain Joe Burns Director – Flight Standards and Technology United Airlines
Agenda: • Our EFB Drivers- • Navigation Charts • Flight Manuals • Aircraft Communications • Cabin Surveillance • Safety • Security • Weather PAGE 2 | AUGUST 2006
Air_Net/EFB Components • Back-office Servers and infrastructure • Charting Services • EFB and associated hardware • Type II and window mount • Power supplies • Network and WiFi connectivity • ARINC-429 read-only • Weather receiver • Weather provider PAGE 3 | AUGUST 2006
Type IIFlight Deck Display Devices and Locations EFB on our B747-400 EFB on B737 Typical EFB PAGE 4 | AUGUST 2006
CONDOR BERLIN Project initiatives: AirNet – Phase 1 • Phase 1 Scope • Deploy on A319/320 Fleet. • EFBs, charts and manuals as planned. • Commodity weather data. • Wireless network to simulators • No wireless aircraft network. • No wireless ground network. Manual & chart updates are done via thumb drive update carried by pilots. • No integrated ground network providing information transfer or vendor visibility wirelessly to the aircraft. • Development of technical architecture. Weather Link United Airlines Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04 PAGE 5 | AUGUST 2006
CONDOR BERLIN Project initiatives: AirNet – Phase 2 • Phase 2 Scope • Deploy on all remaining fleets. Upgrade the first fleet during regularly scheduled maintenance to avoid additional cost. • EFBs, charts and manuals as planned. • Add UA specific weather • Add wireless aircraft network as needed to support AirNet objectives and consistent with architecture. • Add wireless ground network as needed to support AirNet objectives and consistent with architecture. • Add integrated ground network providing information transfer or vendor visibility wirelessly into the aircraft. Weather Link Aircraft Network Ground Link 802.11b- WiFi Integrated Ground Network United Airlines Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04 PAGE 6 | AUGUST 2006
Air_Net/EFB Justification considerations • Communications platform • Pilot back injury reduction • Turbulence injury reduction • Convective reroute (block reduction) • Contingency fuel reduction • Transactional comm. reduction • Paper reduction • Weight reduction • Future avionics replacement PAGE 7 | AUGUST 2006
Communication requirements are growing exponentially • Each Constituent has Comparable Information – Accessed Via Multiple Paths Aggregated to Meet Mission Needs, Rather Than Link-to-Mission Design THE AIRPLANE THE THE ATM AIRLINE* SYSTEM * = C2 Center PAGE 8 | AUGUST 2006
Reducing weight and data volume with AirNet/EFB 10 grams of data! vs. 42 Lbs of paper PAGE 9 | AUGUST 2006
Common Onboard Data Network Infrastructure PAGE 10 | AUGUST 2006
Common Onboard Data Network Infrastructure OperationsApps Weather Electronic Manuals/Charts Cabin Surveillance Surface Moving Maps Flight Papers/Data FOQA Dataloader Maintenance reporting Email UNIMATIC/APOLLO Security PAGE 11 | AUGUST 2006
B747-400 Cabin Surveillance Phase 2 Evaluation System Inmarsat R/C Swift 64 PEDs Verizon LRU 802.3 Bus To Verizon Terrestrial Network Gate connection PAGE 12 | AUGUST 2006
Cabin Surveillance with EFB and WiFi Portable Display PAGE 13 | AUGUST 2006
FAMCOM: Air-Ground Security Communications Satellite Network DataLink Data Links Data Links Data Link DHS/TSA Airline Operations State and local govts. FAMS/BICE MOC GroundNetworkk DATA CENTER FAA PAGE 14 | AUGUST 2006
Navigation: Airspace Data Growth 2003 1962 1977 PAGE 15 | AUGUST 2006
Surface Moving Map with/without ownship on EFB Conducting First Actual Taxi Evaluation of United/FAA SMM at DEN PAGE 16 | AUGUST 2006
Communications: WINCOM Project Aviation Safety / Weather Information Communications Chart Source: NASA GRC Presentation to the AEEC Data Link Users Forum, 2/07/01 PAGE 17 | AUGUST 2006
ACARS Paper printout vs. EFB weather PAGE 18 | AUGUST 2006
Live EFB weather with Datalink Live EFB Weather on our A320 Actual “Passenger” view of weather using Airfone connection PAGE 19 | AUGUST 2006
+ 153744 + 160400 + 155216 Reducing Turbulence Injuries with AirNet/EFB Current ACARS display (UAL only) Both Display formats available with EFB PAGE 20 | AUGUST 2006
Track-up turbulence with SIGMET overlay plot North-up turbulence plot PAGE 21 | AUGUST 2006
Making Strategic route decisions with EFB/Weather PAGE 22 | AUGUST 2006
Oklahoma TRW in/out view PAGE 23 | AUGUST 2006
What Now? • Keep it simple! – we can add later • Keep it functional! – need HF • This is not a science or R/D project anymore • Effective and efficient training – think out of the box • What to do with paper? • Installations must start this year. PAGE 24 | AUGUST 2006
Thank You! • Captain Joe Burns • United Airlines • Joe.Burns@united.com PAGE 25 | AUGUST 2006