1. Integrated Flight Information System (IFIS) Weather products
Mary Beth Lapis
(319)
Dan Gienger
(319)

2. IFIS Major Focus Areas
Improved Situational Awareness - Enhanced Safety
Electronic Charts – Aircraft Symbol Overlaid
Real-time Strategic Weather
FMS maps with geopolitical boundaries, geographical features, Airways, and Airspace
Improved Cockpit Efficiency
Eliminate Paper from the cockpit
Intelligent Integration of Information
Charts and weather on forward displays
FMS flight plan integrated with charts and weather functions
User Interface evaluated, modified, and approved by pilots

3. Product Capabilities
Uplink Graphical Weather (On MFD)

4. System Architecture L-CCP R-CCP = A429 = Ethernet Hardware
Upgraded Display
File Server Unit
Cursor Control Panel
Market or Customers’ Most Important Requirements (MIRS)
Clear definition of what is needed to provide the solution; i.e. the targeted opportunity
Tangible and intangible benefits that are recognized as such by the customer
Seen as using state of the art design and technology for customer image
Ease of manufacturing
Potential Customers
Precisely detail who needs what you’re offering
Describe channel(s) to market
Factors Influencing timing & sense of urgency
Size (sales volume in units and dollars)
Bottoms-up detail of Served Available Market Size
Identification of Intended Addressed Market & Size
Reflect (as required) the Orders Flow that will generate the Sales Volume
Document assumptions used for the market adoption
How fast will the market start using this product
Price elasticity considerations (price vs. volume)
Substantiation and Validation of Market Projections (is it real?)
Planned funding, Requirement Documents, key market indicators, substantiation of timing, etc.
This can be done via interviews with key decision makers, respected industry analysts, customer planning documents, etc.
Software
Electronic Charts
Graphical Weather
Enhanced Map Overlays (Geopolitical, Airways, Airspace)
Upload Capabilities
ARINC 615-A: FSU Software and Databases
= A429
= Ethernet

5. TSOs Claimed Unit TSO CCP-3000 C113 FSU-5010 C113, C165 AFD-3010E
C2d, C3d, C4c, C6d, C8d, C9c, C10b, C34e, C35d, C36e, C40c, C41d, C43c, C46a, C52b, C63c, C66c, C87, C92c, C95, C101, C104, C105, C110a, C113, C115b, C117a, C118, C119b, C129a, C165

6. Environment DO-160D
FSU-5010
[(A2)(F2)W]BBB[(TCC1R)(SLM)]EWXXXSZ[BZ]AZC[KF]H[Z3Z4]XAA
Section 4: Temperature and Altitude
Ground Survival: -55 to 85
Operating Temp: -55 to 70 C
Cooling: 90 Minute Loss of Cooling
Altitude: 55,000 Ft.
Section 22: RF Susceptibility
1500 v/m (goal)

7. User Interface CCP-3000 Dedicated Chart Controls (CHART, ROTATE)
Pan (Joystick) and ZOOM (Charts and XM)
Programmable Quick Access Keys
Menu controls

8. MFD - Split Window Formats
Upper Window
OFF
Checklist
FMS text window
Lower Window
Rose (Seldom Enabled)
Arc (Seldom Enabled)
PPOS Map
PLAN Map
GWX Only
Enhance Map Overlay
TCAS only

9. Universal Weather - Graphical Weather
Information Service Provider is Universal Weather
Ground-based data services provided on a request/reply basis
Subscriptions handled by Collins or Universal Weather
Offering 3 Subscription plans for textual and graphical weather

10. Universal Weather - Graphical Weather Products
NEXRAD
Winds/Temps
Icing
FONT STYLE AND SIZE
Helvetica (Postscript)/Arial (Non-postscript) is the standard font for all slides. All headline and body text should be Bold.
The headline text is set at black 30 point, UPPERCASE. Body copy is black Title Case (initial capital letters). The first and second level body copy text is 24 point. The third and fourth level is 20 point. Text should not drop below 18 point for readability. The alternative to reducing the text size below 18 point is to create more than one slide. All sizes are set in the template.
BULLETS
The standard shape for first level bullets is a square from monotype sort. It is located in the third row, the sixth symbol from the right. It is gray and should be 60% the size of the text. The second level bullet is a dash selected from the normal menu. It is located in the fifth row, eighth from the left. For second level text, this dash is used at 70% of the size of the text, all other levels are set at 60% of the size of the text. These sizes are set in the template.
Turbulence
Tops/Movement
Wx Depiction

11. North Atlantic Winds/temps – FL 390

12. European turbulence forecast

13. Northern Pacific Turbulence forecast- FL300

14. UV Wx International Regions
Winds/temps, Graphical METARS, icing, turbulence available for:
USA and 6 sub-regions
North and South America
North and South Atlantic
North and South Pacific
Africa
India
Australia
Europe
Asia

15. XM Weather - Graphical Weather
XM Graphical Weather
Ground-based data services provided by Baron on a broadcast basis
Continuous Feed
All Products Broadcast Every 12 Minutes
Full CONUS Coverage
Automated/Unlimited Updates (No Request Necessary)
Geosynchronous Satellites
In Air/On Ground Reception
XM Radio Services (Satellite Provider)
Single “GPS Like” Antenna

16. XM Weather - Graphical Weather Products
NEXRAD (1 NM Resolution)
Echo Tops
Graphical and Textual METARs
Graphical and Textual SIGMETs
Textual AIRMETs
Textual TAFs

17. XM Weather - Graphical Weather Features
Integrated User Interface Consists of CCP and AFD (No CDU Required)
Pan (Similar to Electronic Charts)
3 Zoom Levels
System Utilization Integrated With Collins FMS
NEXRAD Animation (5 frames)
NEXRAD Overlay on PLAN Map
Flight Info Overlay on GWx formats

18. Enhanced Map Overlays Example Format With EIS Displayed Upper Window
Checklist
Lower Window
PLAN Map
Geopolitical
NEXRAD