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Langley
Research Center
1993 Phase II
General Aviation
Electronic Pilot Reports
ARNAV
Systems, Inc.
Puyallup, WA
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INNOVATION
Graphical display of Weather Information
(not data) in the Cockpit made possible through low costo, datalink
for ground to cockpit transmission for General Aviation; provides "e-mail"
messaging from the cockpit
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Cockpit Navigation Display + Weather
Overlay
Optional Powerpoint
file
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Global Positioning Satellite
(GPS) navigation, graphical display on cockpit management systems,
and wireless datalink communications technology, has formed
the hardware basis for the Weather in the Cockpit System
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COMMERCIALIZATION
- Sales of DataLink and Display
Products exceeded $1 million in 1997, expected orders in excess
of $30 million over next 3 years
- Equipment used in 100 aircraft
for Operation Helistar during 1996 Olympic Games, the largest ever
“Free Flight” demonstration
- Equipment credited by the FAA
in saving 50+ lives during 1995-96 in Emergency Medical use in Chattanooga,
TN
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS
- Weather Display on its Moving
map for situational awareness
- Two-way datalink communications&
Cockpit Display of Traffic
- Partnerships created with major
weather research vendor - NCAR to improve hazardous weather prediction
& depict it intuitively for future GA cockpit. The technology
creates a reduction in pilot work load and thus impacts safety
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