Airline & Air Traffic Management Collaboration

AIR TRAFFIC MODERNIZATION ● RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL ● MARCH 1 – 3, 2016 Sponsored by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Session 8

Airline & Air Traffic Management Collaboration

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ● March 1 – 3, 2016

The Boeing Company

Airspace and Operational Efficiency

AIR TRAFFIC MODERNIZATION ● RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL ● MARCH 1 – 3, 2016

Airline, ANSP and OEM Partnership

• Cultivate current equipage (air and ground) to advance ATM and Flight Efficiency technologies.

• Reduce costs through the introduction of flight efficiency innovations.

• Leverage partnerships to solve airline and industry problems.

• Improve operator efficiency.

• In order to maximize the benefit of these technologies, information must be integrated and exchanged internally and with external parties.

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Identify and capture additional flight efficiency partnerships!


Leverage Partnerships

• Boeing, ANSPs and airlines have a long standing partnership to research and develop new flight efficiency and ATM concepts.

• Conduct real world demonstrations to gather and understand the next evolution of flight efficiency and ATM technologies.

• Building on past success and visionary strategies to develop new operator (airline and ANSP) services.

• Address technology and business development life cycles.

• Establish new agreements, collaborations or partnerships with Airports, ANSPs, and Airlines.

• Synchronize and drive industry standards and strategies.

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2020

Flight Efficiency Vision

Paperless Flight Deck

Airspace and Flight Analytics Tools

Mobile and Automated Flight Efficiency Advisories

Automated Flight Planning

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2010


Efficiency Technology Principles

• In partnership with KLM Airlines - partner with operators to gain immediate feedback to validate concepts and value.

• Full Flight Concepts.

• Merge into current operational procedures and standards (won’t require new standards or certs, etc.).

• Abbreviated/short projects with quick turn around to evaluate initial concepts, operational feasibility & benefit.

• Improve decision making with real-time flight and environment information.

• Provide a platform for networking and sharing of real-time information and advisories.

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The Targets

• Inefficiencies from Weather

• Optimization of cruise speed schedule that balances schedule and costs

• Cruise Altitude Optimization Selection

• Disruption Management

• Ground trajectory prediction accuracy

• Workload (preflight, enroute and for efficiency advisories)

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Flight Efficiency Technology Development

• Generate Ideas

• Validate Concept of Operations

• Benefit Analysis

• Pilot Feedback

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• Ground Testing

• Models

• Simulations to validate

• Flight Test for Verification

Rapid prototyping tied to operator feedback accelerates

development and reduces costs.


• SPEAR is a culmination of flight and dispatch technologies to improve fuel or time efficiency for a flight, workload and reduce operational costs.

• SMART are flight trials to identify the feasibility, procedures, and operational requirements to enable in-flight reroute opportunities.

• PARC (Performance and Route Communications) technology to directly uplinks efficiency advisories, flight plans, weather, takeoff information to FMC and mobile device.

• EWIS (Environmental Waypoint Insertion System) is a technology that identifies inefficiencies in the flight plan due to weather using real-time and forecast weather.

• RASS (Real-time Adaptive Speed Scheduler) improves flight efficiency related to flight schedules, connecting passengers, costs, and airline and pilot preferences. RASS calculates a dynamic speed schedule to regain time and fuel efficiency.

SPEARBoeing Research & Technology | SPEAR


FP Uplink to FMC(PARC)

• Minimizes pilot workload and human error• Replaces all existing FP entries, or edits with MODS in the FMC• Complete flight plan no discontinuities• Secondary Flight Plan and Alternate Flight Plan• Includes departure, arrival and approach procedures WITH transitions

and runways

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FPN/RP:DA:KJFK:R:31L:D:MERIT3..MERIT..HFD..PUT..BOS..TUSKY.N77B..YQX..KOBEV..N50W050..N51W040..


FP and PERF UplinkPARC – KLM Flight Test

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Performance Uplink

Flight Plan

Flight Plan Uplink


FP Uplink to Mobile DevicePARC – Synchronize Mobile and FMC

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FP on Mobile DevicePARC – KLM Airlines Flight Test


Why EWIS?

• Currently, weather along a flight plan is identified and evaluated at known flight plan waypoints. The flight plan waypoints are generally defined for purposes of navigation or communication.

• Flight plan tools only evaluate weather along a flight path and not a flight trajectory (offsets, pseudo waypoints).

• In between flight plan waypoints, weather is accounted for using linear interpolation of the entered winds and temperatures at the waypoint.

• What happens when the 2 flight plan waypoints are great distances apart?

• What happens when weather doesn’t follow linear interpolation?

• What happens when there is a thunderstorm, or other significant weather in between any 2 flight plan waypoints?

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These are inefficiencies for both flight planning tools and FMCs.


EWIS for FMC

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1. CREW:

REQUEST EWIS

2. Boeing:

UPLINK additional waypoints

4. Boeing:

UPLINK weather on additional waypoints

3. AIRCRAFT:

Auto load Route

MOD with no discons

5. AIRCRAFT:

Auto signal waypoints are loaded

Additional EWIS Waypoints and Weather

Wind Updates weather on flight plan waypoints in FMC

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Boeing:

Wind Updates detects new flt plan waypoints


Environmental Waypoint Insertion System(EWIS)


EWIS Evaluated Weather Waypoints

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Crew will be advised of only those points that cause a loss of efficiency along the planned and predicted trajectory.


EWIS and Exclusion Zones

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• EWIS solution is adaptive to ground system limitations (exclusion zones).

• Any User Interface can be used - any mobile device for Display.

• Display in-situ and forecast weather observations.

• Weather and EWIS points are filtered by user.

• Allows user to manually de/select EWIS points.

• Display EWIS Benefit.

• Display FMC and Plan interpolated versus EWIS value.


EWIS on Mobile DeviceForecast and In-situ

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EWIS with NexRad

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Contact Info

• Louis Bailey Airspace and Operational EfficiencyBoeing Research and Technology (BR&T) Ph: (253) 657-5277 Fax: (253) 657-0312 [email protected]

• Jose Fregnani

Airspace and Operational EfficiencyBoeing Research and Technology (BR&T) - [email protected]

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Engineering

Airline & Air Traffic Management Collaboration