1. Flight Deck Weather Information :
Current and Future
Friends and Partners of Aviation Weather
October 18-19, 2015
Prepared by Kevin Kronfeld

2. Overview Background Current Capabilities Future Capabilities
Weather Information on mobile devices and avionics
Advanced Airborne Radar
Improved Global Weather
Future Capabilities
Integrated Weather
Advanced HMI for 4D Weather Avoidance
Crowd Sourced Weather

3. Background
Cockpit Weather Information Improvement Enablers and Drivers:
Improved Connectivity
Improved Airborne Wx Sensors
Increased Automation
Mobile Devices
FAA NextGen Weather and System Wide Information Management (SWIM)
Cockpit Weather Information Deficiencies
Lack of high quality global weather information
Lack of integrated weather
Disparate views of weather from pilot vs. ground perspectives.

4. Weather on Flight Decks: Mobile Devices
Nearly all mobile devices have applications that can access and display weather information.
ARINCDirect mobile application provides display of weather information. Integrated with ground flight support services, the application provides alerting of future weather threats to operators.
Mobile devices provide an effective method of delivering advanced interactive weather solutions to flight decks.
Easier to incorporate enhanced weather threats (turbulence, icing, convective, etc.)
Decision support functions can be readily added.
Additional products included on GIS maps: SIGMETs, AIRMETs, TFRs, Volcanic Ash advisory zones. Base maps available for low or high level flight routes, and VFR charts.
Various other meteorological products available via our direct link to a custom Schneider Electric Aviation WxSentry page such as regional model diagnostics (e.g. NAM EDR Turbulence and Icing vs. global EDR turb and icing), lightning data, ground and airborne observations, etc.

5. Weather on Flight Decks: Integrated Avionics
Integrated avionics, such as Pro-Line Fusion, provide the most up to date information on position and location of threats, including weather threats using uplink weather and the airborne weather radar.
Multiple views of the weather allow pilot to display graphical weather with flight path and aircraft position overlays.
Unrestricted use in all phases of flight.
Additional products included on GIS maps: SIGMETs, AIRMETs, TFRs, Volcanic Ash advisory zones. Base maps available for low or high level flight routes, and VFR charts.
Various other meteorological products available via our direct link to a custom Schneider Electric Aviation WxSentry page such as regional model diagnostics (e.g. NAM EDR Turbulence and Icing vs. global EDR turb and icing), lightning data, ground and airborne observations, etc.

6. MultiScan ThreatTrack™ Radar
WXR-2100 MultiScan In Service Since 2002
Extensive Customer Base
8000+ Systems in Service
Fully Automatic Radar Operation
Horizontal and Vertical weather scanning.
Adaptive Gain and Ground Clutter suppression
OverFlight Protection™
Geographic Weather Correlation
Certified Turbulence & Windshear Detection
Threat Assessment
Based on ‘Dark Cockpit’ (Clean Screen) Philosophy
Fast Growing Thunderstorms
Strong Convection
Hail and Lightning Prediction
Ride Quality Turbulence
Threat Assessment Brings Significant Operational Benefits 6

7. Improved Global Weather ARINCDirect Predicted Convection
Weather vendors and university researchers developing high quality global weather information.
Satellite products and existing global sensors being used in unique ways.
ARINCDirect Predicted Convection

8. Global Integrated Weather
4/27/2017
NEXRAD VIL
Predicted Convective
Airborne WxR
Single Integrated Threat Display
MSCAN_hDbz_ _205046_mb _ r640_h199, etc.
Rob’s graphs from: results _ _ ppt
Data Fusion automates complex datalink usage logic and takes advantage of the strengths of each sensor source.
DO-340 Datalink Wx Usage Guidelines
NEXRAD Echo Tops
Separate Threat Displays/Layers

9. Advanced 4D weather avoidance

10. Crowd Sourcing Weather Information
DRAFT TEMPLATE
Crowd Sourcing Weather Information
FAA WTIC office research to determine feasibility of Crowd Sourcing weather information for aviation.
Global anonymous participants (aka “crowd”) analyze web camera images to provide summary visibility data to operators.
2016 Research:
Prototype evaluation at William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Quality Control Assessment.
Future State
Current State