B/CA Show News - NBAA 2007 Day 2 - (Page 68)

N B A A 2 0 07 Jeppesen Going Digital With En Route Charts plays are only for situational The leading supplier of en awareness, not navigation. route paper charts to busiNow all of that is about ness jets and airlines has to change with the first created a software tool kit paperless certification probthat will enable aircraft manably coming in late 2009, ufacturers to create digital according to Jeppesen. The charts on multi-function distool will even allow aircraft plays and eventually gain manufacturers to partition FAA approval to dispense the multi-function display with paper. into as many as six comThe Jeppesen Integrated partments. One option is a Toolkit (JIT), which as just picture-in-picture with the received FAA certification inset image being a thumbunder RTCA DO-178B nail view of the entire route. level C standards, allows Displays can be decluttered electronic en route charts to to eliminate unwanted data be integrated in multi-funcand because the en route tion displays on everything chart is being drawn from a from light jets on up to large digital database—a chart cabin business jets and air Jeppesen enroute software allows more versatile cockpit displays with an eye to the end of paper. view can be sized any way transport aircraft. the pilot desires. Gone are the days of looking at Scott A. Reagan, director of air data services for seven years. These charts are used on systems for Jeppesen, says manufacturers of piston-pow- such as Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 and several paper charts and trying to see the entire ered aircraft with integrated cockpits may also Honeywell Epic INAV, but paper en route charts route of flight. Jeppesen, a Boeing company located near are still required as the current moving map dismake use of the tool kit. Denver, is also putting a major push to Jeppesen is working with the FAA to fill bring Required Navigation Performance in some gaps in data on the en route charts (RNP) capability to the masses, and is talkto satisfy the agency that the electronic foring with business aircraft operators as well mat is correct and can qualify for use without as airlines and airports about this. The coma paper backup. Jeppesen doesn’t believe an pany has just been invited by the FAA to electronic chart requires every single piece qualify as a third party designer of RNP procedures. One other small navigation “We will find our procedures development company has also been invited, Naverus, which is located near way through all this. Seattle. We don’t want to Jeppesen will develop “public” RNP prohold back due to cedures to begin with but it is not certain who will pay for these procedures to be legal concerns developed and who will own the intellecbecause the benefit tual property rights. There are also of these procedures questions to be resolved on Jeppesen’s legal is considerable liability—should an accident occur when pilots are using any procedure the company worldwide.” develops on behalf of the FAA. —Mark Van Tine, president and “We will find our way through all this. chief operating officer, Jeppesen We don’t want to hold back due to legal concerns because the benefit of these procedures is considerable worldwide,” says of data that is on a paper chart, but the final Mark Van Tine, president and chief operformat is yet to be determined. ating officer of Jeppesen. Aircraft manufacturers will be able to Jeppesen is working with Gulfstream modify the electronic en route charts using and Honeywell on an RNP demonstrathe JIT to provide any proprietary data they tion project at Morristown, N.J., where see as putting their own signatures on the the three are developing and flight-testdisplay format. Jeppesen has offered elecing an RNP approach procedure. tronic terminal charts for 12 years and has Jeppesen’s RNP—required navigational perforrnance—tool. had a software development tool available —David Hughes 68 September 26, 2007 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews

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Contents Spectrum Stresses Freedom Adam Shows A700 Cabin User Fee War of Words Execujet Boosts Services Saab's Got Your Back CAE Covers the Field London Airports Roundup Pratt & Whitney Canada Another Show! A More Digital Jeppesen CMC Rides Bizjet Wave Thales Weighs In We Fly the Eclipse 500

B/CA Show News - NBAA 2007 Day 2

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