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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Global Integrated Weather 4/27/2017 NEXRAD VIL Predicted Convective Airborne WxR Single Integrated Threat Display MSCAN_hDbz_20130410_205046_mb39.173641_-91.356897r640_h199, etc. Rob’s graphs from: results-20130410_201706-29-08-2013_17.29.28.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

Advanced 4D weather avoidance

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