UAL EFB Program
Captain Joe Burns
Director – Flight Standards and Technology
United Airlines
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Agenda:
Our EFB Drivers-Navigation ChartsFlight ManualsAircraft CommunicationsCabin SurveillanceSafetySecurityWeather
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Air_Net/EFB Components
Back-office Servers and infrastructureCharting ServicesEFB and associated hardware
Type II and window mountPower suppliesNetwork and WiFi connectivityARINC-429 read-onlyWeather receiver
Weather provider
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Type IIType IIFlight Deck Display Devices and LocationsFlight Deck Display Devices and Locations
EFB on our B747-400
EFB on B737
Typical EFB
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Project initiatives: AirNet – Phase 1
United Airlines
CONDORBERLIN
Weather Link
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.
Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04
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Project initiatives: AirNet – Phase 2
Integrated Ground Network
United Airlines
Ground Link802.11b- WiFi
CONDORBERLIN
Weather Link
Aircraft Network
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.
Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04
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Air_Net/EFB Justification considerations
Communications platformPilot back injury reductionTurbulence injury reductionConvective reroute (block reduction)Contingency fuel reductionTransactional comm. reductionPaper reductionWeight reductionFuture avionics replacement
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Communication requirements are growing exponentiallyCommunication requirements are growing exponentially
Each Constituent has Comparable Information – Accessed Via Multiple Paths Aggregated to Meet Mission Needs, Rather Than Link-to-Mission Design
THEAIRPLANE
THE ATMSYSTEM
THEAIRLINE*
* = C2 Center
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Reducing weight and data volume with AirNet/EFB
42 Lbs of paper
10 grams of data!
vs.
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Common Onboard Data Network Infrastructure
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Common Onboard Data Network Infrastructure
Operations Apps Weather Electronic Manuals/Charts Cabin Surveillance Surface Moving Maps Flight Papers/Data FOQA Dataloader Maintenance reporting Email UNIMATIC/APOLLO Security
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B747-400 Cabin Surveillance Phase 2 Evaluation System
PEDs
Gate connection
Inmarsat
To Verizon Terrestrial Network
R/C Swift 64
Verizon LRU802.3
Bus
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Cabin Surveillance with EFB and WiFi Portable Display
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FAMCOM: Air-Ground Security Communications
FAA
Data Links
Data Link
Data Links
Data Link
GroundNetworkk
State and local govts.
DATA CENTER
AirlineOperations FAMS/BICE MOC
Satellite Network
DHS/TSA
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Navigation: Airspace Data Growth
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Surface Moving Map with/without ownship on EFB
Conducting First Actual
Taxi Evaluation
of United/FAA
SMM at DEN
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Communications: WINCOM Project
Aviation Safety / Weather Information Communications
Chart Source: NASA GRC Presentation to the AEEC Data Link Users Forum, 2/07/01
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ACARS Paper printout vs. EFB weather
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Live EFB weather with Datalink
Live EFB Weather on our A320
Actual “Passenger” view of weather using Airfone
connection
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Reducing Turbulence Injuries with AirNet/EFB
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Both Display formats available with EFB
Current ACARS
display (UAL only)
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Track-up turbulence with SIGMET overlay plot
North-up turbulence plot
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Making Strategic route decisions with EFB/Weather
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Oklahoma TRW in/out view
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What Now?
Keep it simple! – we can add laterKeep it functional! – need HFThis is not a science or R/D project anymoreEffective and efficient training – think out of the boxWhat to do with paper?Installations must start this year.