2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 1 Progress in Weather Information Management and Dissemination 2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum Las Vegas, Nevada October 13, 2004 Gus Martzaklis NASA John H. Glenn Research at Lewis Field

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 2 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 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.

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 3 Wx Info Dissemination Vision & NASA’s Contribution Developments-to-Date (1 st 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 (2 nd 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 (3 rd Generation): ‘Design in’ Wx information requirements into future aviation information systems to enable JPDO Network Enabled Ops and FAA’s SWIM

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 4 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 2 nd -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

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 5 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 1 st and 2 nd generation Wx datalink systems

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 6 Regional/General Aviation En-Route Ground Station 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 Data Collection Weather Information Service

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 7 Ground Station 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 Data Collection Weather Information Service

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 8 International/Oceanic En-Route Inmarsat Swift 64 & Network Service Provider Air to Ground Aircraft Systems Sensor Data Aircraft Telemetry Ground to Air Ground Systems Reports & Forecasts Alerts / Warnings National/Commercial Weather Providers AOC, Dispatch, ATC Air to Air (Air-Ground-Air Routing) Turbulence Alerts/Warnings ►Equipment/Partnering ►EMS (avionics) ►SITA

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