Captain Joe Burns Director Flight Standards and Technology Segment Five: Progress in Weather Information Displays, Integration, and Evaluation Captain Joe Burns Director Flight Standards and Technology IBM Confidential

Why the need for Cockpit Weather? Safety – Efficiency – Capacity Better weather in back… Last pilot graphics in operations before departure Great ground based graphics in DD/Internet Weather a huge driver in delays $40-$80/minute average $2,500-$15,000/delay cost Can airborne display of weather help? Datalink issues – no govermental D/L growth path We must and will turn to commercial providers GA has paved the way with rapid COTS adoption PAGE 2 | OCTOBER 2004

NEXRAD vs. X-Band – Strategic and Tactical PAGE 3 | OCTOBER 2004

Display and Data issues: Is COTS good enough for 121 Operations? Human Factors – how and how much to display Coding of other safety information into display Same data should be available to all NAS participants PAGE 4 | OCTOBER 2004

How do we get weather to the Cockpit? Use EFB as the weather display platform AC 120-76A good starting point, but.. Most likely Class II device using hardened COTS RFP “on the street” Is there funding for base products? Funding for D/L? Any funding will rapidly increase adoption rate PAGE 5 | OCTOBER 2004