1. 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

2. 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
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3. NEXRAD vs. X-Band – Strategic and Tactical
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4. 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
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5. How do we get weather to the Cockpit?
Use EFB as the weather display platform
AC A 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
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