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2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum
Progress in Weather Information Management and Dissemination
2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather ForumLas Vegas, NevadaOctober 13, 2004
Gus MartzaklisNASA John H. Glenn Research at Lewis Field
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NASA Goals and Objectives
Goal: Develop enabling technologies to reduce weather-related accident causal factors by 50% and turbulence-related injuries by 50% by the year 2007.
Objectives:
1. Improve pilots’ ability to obtain, understand and use weather information for safer decision-making.
2. Develop means to expand automated airborne in-situ weather reporting for altitudes below 25,000 ft. for improved forecasts.
3. Develop en-route turbulence hazard prediction, warning and reporting technologies for reducing injuries to passengers and crew.
4. Develop air/ground communications concepts and technologies for improved weather information dissemination.
5. Develop methods to use advanced satellite weather-observation capabilities to improve aviation weather products.
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Wx Info Dissemination Vision & NASA’s Contribution
Developments-to-Date (1st Generation):
• Independent, unique aviation Wx info-only datalinks
• Primarily focused on General Aviation (safety & utility benefit driven)
• End-to-end, stovepiped, packaged Wx delivery & presentation systems
• Minimal use of on-board decision-aids (‘canned’ Wx products)
• WSI In-Flight, XM Wx, Bendix-King FISDL are some examples
Emerging Near to Mid-Term Solutions (2nd Generation):
• Adapt datalinks to carry Wx information with other aviation data
• General Aviation as well as Commercial Transport
• UAT, Iridium, 1090ES, VDLM3, Inmarsat Swift 64 SatCom… examples
Long Term Solution (3rd Generation):
• ‘Design in’ Wx information requirements into future aviation information systems to enable JPDO Network Enabled Ops and FAA’s SWIM
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FY04 Key Progress & FY05 Plans
TAMDAR:
• With partners, completed preparations (sensor development, cert, partnerships..) to conduct FY05 Great Lakes Fleet Evaluation of TAMDAR System with Mesaba Airlines using Iridium system
• With partners, completed preparations for NASA UAT-based FY05 air-air flight experiments using NASA Learjets
Weather-to-the Cockpit Uplink: Plans in place for NASA flight experiments in FY05 integrating 2nd-generation cockpit presentation, interface and datalink research
• On-board NASA 757 or UAL 747 using Inmarsat Swift 64 (demonstrating oceanic application)
• NASA C-206 for General Aviation using WSI SatCom
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FY04 Key Progress & FY05 Plans
Turbulence Airborne Hazard Prediction & Reporting:
• With partners, completed preparations (partnerships, cert, algorithm and radar development) and initiated FY04/05 In-Service Evaluations of Turbulence Radar and Turbulence Auto-PIREP System with Delta Airlines using ACARS
• Plans in place for NASA VDLM3 and 1090ES-based FY05 air-air EPIREP flight experiments using NASA 757 and Learjets
Summary:
• FY05, as the final year of NASA’s Weather Accident Prevention Project, represents technology validation activities of advanced technologies developed during FY00-04
• NASA’s involvement has been instrumental in the implementation of 1st and 2nd generation Wx datalink systems
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Regional/General Aviation En-Route
GroundStation
Building 2
FAA – UAT Ground Stations & Network
Air to Air•Atmospheric Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry
Ground to Air•Graphical Wx Products•Textual Wx Products
40,000 AGL
5,000 AGL Air to Ground•Atmospheric Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry
►FAA SF21►FAA Tech Ctr►MITRE►Sensis
►Equipment/Partnering
►Garmin (avionics radio)
►JHU-APL: Partnership for Engineering, Integration, Validation
►WSI (weather products)
TAMDAR DataCollection
Weather InformationService
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GroundStation
Building 2
Air to Air (1090ES)Turbulence Alerts/Warnings
Ground to Air (VDLM3)•Graphical Turbulence•Weather Products
40,000 AGL
5,000 AGL
VDLM3 Ground Stations & Network
Air to Ground(VDLM3)Aircraft Systems•Wx Requests•Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry
Commercial Transport En-Route
►Sensis / Honeywell
►Rockwell-Collins (avionics)
►FAA (Nexcom)►MITRE
►Equipment/Partnering
►Universal Weather (Wx products)
Turbulence DataCollection
Weather InformationService
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International/Oceanic En-Route
Building 2
Inmarsat Swift 64 &Network Service Provider
Air to GroundAircraft Systems•Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry
Ground to AirGround Systems•Reports & Forecasts•Alerts / Warnings
National/CommercialWeather Providers
AOC, Dispatch, ATC
Air to Air(Air-Ground-Air Routing)
•Turbulence Alerts/Warnings
►Equipment/Partnering
►EMS (avionics)
►SITA
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