Aviation Week & Space Technology, October 27, 2008, Bailey Lauerman - (Page 4) AVIONICS This IntuVue plan view shows a storm ahead with turbulence (magenta). The side view depicts the cell at and above the aircraft’s altitude. example, when the aircraft is scheduled for a slight left turn, the vertical slice of storms that’s shown would be along that same path to the left. At one point, we passed between two very red cells showing lots of rainfall in the plan view. The side view also had lots of red in the vertical buildup. We managed to pass through the 20-naut.-mi.-wide gap between the two cells in smooth air and felt no turbulence. We then observed the ground-map mode with a clear view of the Florida coastline to help orient us. Grove says this is a good navigation tool for pilots. At 40-mi. range, I could see Lake Okeechobee to the east of Fort Myers. Before long, we were back at Orlando Executive Airport. According to Honeywell, nearly 180,000 business jet flights a year experience weather-related delays, at an annual cost of $340 million. IntuVue has a number of features that are expected to help pilots avoid such problems by showing more precisely where the real hazards are located so it’s easier to plan a diversion that expedites arrival at the final destination. As the first weather radar to meet the FAA’s new standard for enhanced turbulence detection, IntuVue is expected to improve upset avoidance. Singapore Airlines (SIA) is the first carrier using this feature to automatically alert pilots of imminent turbulence. Both passengers and crews have been injured on flights in which jetliners experience sudden, and sometimes violent, movements at altitude due to turbulence. With IntuVue, crews will receive 3-6 min. of warning, depending on the speed of the aircraft. They will be able to instruct flight attendants to secure food carts and have cabin occupants strap in. SIA is already using the IntuVue system on its Airbus A380s and Boeing 777-300ERs. During this year’s Singapore air show, Capt. Robert Ting told me that he likes the Honeywell radar on the A380 because it “builds a model in the database” for the pilot to use as he pleases, much as a doctor employs computed tomography scans to diagnose problems. Ting is chief pilot for the A380 and A340 and vice president in the carrier’s flight operations division. “You can slice [the data] anyway you like to assess the weather,” he noted. He says it’s a quantum leap forward for dealing with weather. First, a pilot The 30-in. IntuVue can slice a storm horizontally at variradar antenna on Hon- ous levels to see the impact along the eywell’s Convair 580 flight path, and then view it vertically has a counterweight to to see how much to deviate to avoid ease movement and a the problem. And unlike conventional receiver transmitter on radars, where pilots have to adjust the the mount. tilt, this radar shows the storms automatically. “What you see is what you get; you don’t have to touch it.” c GEORGE LARSON/AW&ST Posted from Aviation Week, October 27, 2008, copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. with all rights reserved. This reprint implies no endorsement, either tacit or expressed, of any company, product, service or investment opportunity. #1-25423340 Managed by The YGS Group, 717.399.1900. For more information visit www.theYGSgroup.com/reprints. HONEYWELL AEROSPACE http://www.theYGSgroup.com/reprints
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