These resulted in 1,750 fatalities.
Annual losses associated with weather-related accidents are in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
This team assembled diverse technologies for weather sensing, forecasting, communication, and displays. These technologies will provide accurate, timely, and strategic weather information to the pilot, and also to dispatchers and controllers for collaborative decisionmaking. This original and innovative system uses both ground-based and satellite infrastructures to deliver graphical weather information. It also boasts several technical achievements, developed in a record two-year period. The prototype systems for both commercial transport and general aviation airplanes were flight demonstrated, and the user feedback is being incorporated into a second generation of prototype cockpit displays.