# Presentation: 128111

## Weather InformatioN Network (WINN)

**Weather Accident Prevention Annual Project Review**
**May 23, 2000**
**Dan Leger**

**Notes:**
Cover 3 areas per guidelines from NASA
	Background of AIS
	Accomplishments
	Look ahead

## Aviation Information Services Solutions

**Operations**

**Hangar**

-  Scheduled    maintenance
-  Unscheduled     maintenance
-  Flight info. services
-  Internet based    training
-  Crew medical    training

-  Aircraft and crew     scheduling
-  Trip planning
-   - aircraft      arrangements
-   - crew and passenger      arrangements
-  Medical alerts

**Aircraft**

**Passenger**

**Crew**

-  Passenger care
-  Medical    coordination

-  Unscheduled    maintenance
-  Fuel     arrangements
-  Aircraft security

-  Next trip planning
-  Electronic-Log     book update
-  Remote comm.

**Enroute**

**Passenger**

**Crew**

-  Trip re-plan/diversion
-   - new ground arrangements
-   - new flight plan
-  Weather uplink
-  Operational     communications

-  Information services
-   - weather, stock, news
-   - aircraft position map
-  Communication services
-   - voice, fax
-   - TV, video conference
-   - e-mail, internet
-  Emergency medical support

**Arrival**

**Departure**

**Aviation Information Services Solutions**

**Notes:**
Aviation Services was  formed in 1997
Ais is a new business focussed on services, rather than products
The market crosses all segment boundaries from GA to air carrier and military
The idea is to improve the overall customer performance and deliver customer requested services to the end user(passenger).

## Aviation Information Services Strategy

**Aviation Information Services Strategy**

**	****Provide integrated end-to-end**
** ****communications and information based solutions**
**for full mission support**

**Notes:**
Three major thrusts, we call cockpit or operations, cabin or back of the bus and maintenance.  Each thrust is modular in that they can  stand alone or incorporate into a larger system.

## The New Aviation Information Services

**Allied Signal**
**AIS Services**

**Flight Support Services**
**Communication Services**

**Honeywell**
**Aviation Services**

**Flight Operations Services**
**Cabin Information and Communications**
**Maintenance Support**

- Flight Operations
- & Support

- Cabin
- Information

- Maintenance
- Support

- Communication
- Services

**Honeywell**
**AIS**

**Compliment Fit for Growth**

- e-Business
- www.myflite.com

**Notes:**
In december of 1999 Allied Signal and Honeywell merged.  One of your upcoming speakers is from the former Allied Signal.. Basically A/S had a similar thrust largely known as AFIS, or AWIN or FISDL.

The merger allowed us to strengthen this offering with remarkable synergy and little overlap, particularly in the weather area. 

Bullet on the weather summit.   Currently flushing out how all this fits together.

## One ViewTM - Direct Broadcast System 

**What services do airborne DBS systems provide?**
- Live broadcast of news, sports, weather and entertainment to aircraft via satellite television.
- Thousands of tracks of high quality digital music.
- Serve as platform for bringing high speed computer data for internet browsing and e-mail to the aircraft.
**Why install a DBS system on your aircraft?**
- Stay informed about global news, the stock market and the weather.
- Provide favorite sports and television shows aboard your aircraft.
- Position for high speed data capability.

## AMOSS

***  ******Aircraft Maintenance & Operations Support System (AMOSS) *****provides a total maintenance and flight operations solution - current focus is Line maintenance. **
**This is accomplished through:**
**Model Based Diagnostics Successfully**
**	****Applied in the B-777 CMC**
**Workflow Management**
**Electronic Document Integration**
**Legacy System Interfacing**
**ACARS Message Processing**
**Integrating Airborne Systems with Ground Systems**
**Tailorable User Interface**

**Notes:**
Maintenance example
end to end, modular tool designed to lower costs of operations
Emphasis on fault models
Currently installed at Ansett  Airlines

- What is the Honeywell Total Aircraft Information System (TAIS)?
**Networks the aircraft **
**Establishes communication links between the aircraft and ground based communications networks **
**Provides valuable applications for Flight Operations, Cabin Services and Maintenance**
- What benefits does TAIS provide?
** ****Generate Revenue **
** ****Reduce Maintenance Costs**
** ****Increase Customer Satisfaction**
** ****Increase Crew Efficiencies**
** ****Increase Safety**

- Flight Operations

- Maintenance

- Maintenance

- Trend Data

- QAR

- Fuel

- Fault
- Detection

- Dispatch

- Routing

- Aircraft Condition

- Data Bases

- Maintenance

- Irregular Operation

- Electronic Docs

- NavDB Uploading

- Performance Calculations

- Flight Planning

- Cabin

- Intranet

- FOQA

**Real-time Weather**

- Crew Reporting

**Total Aircraft Information System (TAIS)**

**Notes:**
Airborne client/server architecture for a large number of potential uses/services

Completely independent of the NASA AVSP Honeywell had a goal to develop a weather service as part of a larger services offering, on a larger infrastructure.  In this scenario “weather is an application on TAIS”

Modular

Allows airlines to improve services to customers and use same infrastructure to improve operational performance

Spread the infrastructure costs over a larger benefit pool.

## TAIS Background

**Total Aircraft Information System (TAIS) background:**
**Based on Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) components and software**
**Open system architecture design**
**System architecture supports interfaces with classic avionics as well as In-Flight Entertainment (IFE), crew and passenger services**
**Honeywell provides system integration**
**Designed to DO178B, DO160D**
**Evolving technology and products**

**Notes:**
The heart is a NSU
Ruggedized COTS approach
Nonessential services

## Total Aircraft Information System Architecture

**Cockpit **
**Terminal**

**SATCOM or Cabin Telephone Unit**
**Communication**
**Links**

**TAIS**
**Server**

**Portable Maintenance**
**Terminal**

**Cabin Wireless LAN**

**Wireless Cabin****Terminal**

**Total Aircraft Information System Architecture**

**Notes:**
Modular design based on COTS components where possible

Server can interface to avionics, as well as all of the above

Several communication solutions under development for a large number of services.  Each service has its own communication drivers

One of the challenges is that each application alone would drive a communication solution different than another application.  How does one arrive at a multifunction comm solution that maximizes overall cost-effectiveness.

No single end-state communication solution, but a network of offerings based on price (NRE and recurring), technical requirements,  geographic coverage area and aircraft equipage.

## HI Data Center Services:
Internet Service Provider
Airborne E-Mail and Intranet 
(Content Updates)
FMS Navigation Data Base (NDB)
NDB electronic delivery to the airline
Electronic Commerce
Credit card validation and billing 
Weather Information Network (WINN)
Graphical and textual weather information
Voice Services
OneLinkTM automated calling system 

**Internet Service Provider**
**Airborne E-Mail and Intranet **
**(Content Updates)**
**FMS Navigation Data Base (NDB)**
**NDB electronic delivery to the airline**
**Electronic Commerce**
**Credit card validation and billing **
**Weather Information Network (WINN)**
**Graphical and textual weather information**
**Voice Services**
**OneLink****TM**** automated calling system **

** ****Phoenix**

**Aviation Information Services Data Center**

**Notes:**
HDC has as  its genesis, the creation and delivery of NDB.
Now a fully redundant, multi-function data center
7x24 operation and monitoring by CRC
Worldwide service

## Accomplishments to Date

## Accomplishments to date

**Established Automated Data Center(7x24 operation)**
- Data provider connectivity
- Algorithm creation
- Archiving incoming and outgoing files
**Investigated and/or successfully tested multiple communication solutions**
**Data 3 over Satcom**
**Circuit mode over UHF**
**ACARS**
**DBS data link**
**Others**
**Packaging optimization****	**
**Extensive review of data compression alternatives**
**Sending only gridded data; no basemap**
**Greater user display flexibility**

**Notes:**
WINN unique HDC algorithms and infrastructure in place.  Including multiple simultaneous feeds, primary and backup server and archiving of all incoming files and conversion algorithms

Comm
Both direct and indirect WINN focused comm investigations

Packaging	
comm bandwidth and costs dictated efficiency
No bitmaps sent
40 MB to 20K sat file

## Accomplishments to date

**Successfully integrated all components and conducted both systems and operational human factors evaluations in Honeywell simulator 777 and MD-10**
**Systems**
**End-to-end installed, including **
- Communications
- Aircraft LRUs
**Evaluators**
**United Air Lines**
**Delta Air Lines**
**NASA**

**Notes:**
Describe valfac
	Fully functioning simulator
Features: end-to-end test bench, complete with FCC secured license, allowing simulator  to use an assigned tail # for satcom testing
Why important; ground integration testing allowed for a level of confidence in the solution that lowered the risk and cost of going to the airplane; no airplane integration. 
Used MD-11 first and then 777
Human factors test bed

## Accomplishments to date

**Installation and successful series of flight tests in Corporate Citation III**
**First Flight July 16, 1999**
**Conducted 36 test flights**
**Demonstrated system to Delta,  UAL, Swissair and NASA**

**Notes:**
Operational real-life system shakedown
Human factors
Display concepts
Pilot interaction
Color coding
Communications
Circuit mode
Gatelink
Systems
Interaction troubleshooting
Observed operational situations that WINN provided benefit
	8/20/99 return home defining moment
We also received a great deal of operational feedback from the Citation pilots

## Accomplishments to date

**Installed and evaluated in UAL 777 simulator**
**Held 8 days worth of evaluations (2 evals per day)**
**Conducted both airline and media day**
**Released final report**

**Notes:**
The intent was to capture actual weather from the previous summer season, create a real-life flight scenario around that weather and evaluate in a commercial aircraft.  

The flight was from Chicago to MSP.  Each crew got the same data and made different choices based on their judgement. 

Each crew was prebriefed and post briefed, including an multiple choice and essay questionnaire.

The questionnaires were compiled and a final report came out of the exercise
Many thanks to UAL pilots and engineers that made this successful.

We also installed other applications namely electronic charts on the system.  WINN is part of a larger EFB.

Had 6 other airlines on airline day and cycled all representatives through sim to view system.

Jerry Fagerhaig email

## Goals for 2000

**Complete UAL Full Flight Simulator evaluation**
**Integrate other Honeywell and former Allied Signal programs**
**AWIN**
**Route Optimization**
**Wxsight**
**Airborne sensors**
**Conduct an In-Service Evaluation with UAL using new architecture**
**Conduct evaluation on NASA 757**
**Finalize communications roadmap**
**What solutions when**
**Technical and financial**
**Looking at a variety of potential solutions**

**Notes:**
Complete
Talk about weather summit
WINN as part of EFB offering
FFS and Citation architecture to 757, beginning of larger integration effort to fold in other weather related technology in a modular fashion
Comm must be weighed on life cycle cost and technical compatibility
	High speed satcom: Inmarsat, DBS,
	VDL integration with Allied Signal AWIN
	Customers extremely capital equipage sensitive
Begin planning for next year

**Notes:**
This is the WINN program poster.  It highlights both the overall function and the participants.

Data sources; why 4

Communication players; SITA  and ARINC 
End users
	UAL and NASA

Allied Signal was in a previous version

Note this poster has changed over the course of the program as we learned from our development.  It will continue to change as we learn.