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1 Turbulence information in the Aircraft Captain Joe Burns Managing Director – Flight Standards and Technology United Airlines

2 PAGE 2 | OCTOBER 2006 Air_Net/EFB Justification considerations  Communications platform  Pilot back injury reduction  Convective reroute (block reduction)  Contingency fuel reduction  Transactional comm. reduction  Paper reduction  Weight reduction  Future avionics replacement  Turbulence injury reduction

3 PAGE 3 | OCTOBER 2006 Communications: WINCOM Project Aviation Safety / Weather Information Communications Chart Source: NASA GRC Presentation to the AEEC Data Link Users Forum, 2/07/01

4 PAGE 4 | OCTOBER 2006 Making Strategic route decisions with EFB/Weather

5 PAGE 5 | OCTOBER 2006 Getting the information to the Aircraft: Integrated Ground Network AOC, AWC, ANSP Ground Link 802.11b- WiFi CONDOR BERLIN Weather Link Aircraft Network  Voice reports (AOC, Aircraft or ANSP provided)  ACARS datalink reports  MDCRS or TAMDAR information relay  FIS-type Broadcast text or graphical reports  ADS-B type of direct link  LIDAR or RADAR (Self contained) Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04

6 PAGE 6 | OCTOBER 2006 Type II EFB Flight Deck Display Devices and Locations EFB on our B747-400 EFB on B737 Typical EFB

7 PAGE 7 | OCTOBER 2006 ACARS Paper printout vs. EFB weather

8 PAGE 8 | OCTOBER 2006 Live EFB weather with Datalink Live EFB Weather on our A320 Actual “Passenger” view of weather using Airfone connection

9 PAGE 9 | OCTOBER 2006 Track-up turbulence with SIGMET overlay plot North-up turbulence plot

10 PAGE 10 | OCTOBER 2006 Oklahoma TRW in/out view

11 PAGE 11 | OCTOBER 2006 Reducing Turbulence Injuries with AirNet/EFB + 153744 + 160400 + 155216 Both Display formats available with EFB Current ACARS display (UAL only)

12 PAGE 12 | OCTOBER 2006 Thank You! Captain Joe Burns United Airlines Joe.Burns@united.com


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