Rockwell Collins’ ARINC MultiLink Global Flight Tracking ...€¦ · Global Flight Tracking...
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Rockwell Collins’ ARINC MultiLinkSM
Global Flight Tracking Service
London - 14th April 2016
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Background
• This Royal Aeronautical Society Symposium that we are all supporting is perfect evidence of the high level of attention that Flight Tracking is now getting across the Global Aviation Industry.
• In May 2014, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) convened a special multidisciplinary meeting regarding global flight tracking (MMGFT)
– Recommended the development of a concept of operations on aircraft tracking – high level requirements/objectives for a Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety Systems (GADSS).
– “… a flight tracking concept of operations covering how the new tracking data gets shared, with whom, and under what circumstances” 1.
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Background• June-October 2014, the International Air Transport Association
(IATA)
– Conducted an initiative to closely examine global flight tracking –Aircraft Tracking Task Force (ATTF)– “to identify the best near term options and develop performance based recommendations for global flight tracking” 2 using existing coverage, practices and technologies.. In essence, use what is available today.
• In February 2015, ICAO held the Second High-Level Safety Conference 2015
• December 2015; European Commission adopts new rules on aircraft tracking
– Details of these are covered by my Seminar colleague from EASA
• During these Industry Developments RC was able to bring together existing elements to provide an effective solution.
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Rockwell Collins Solution
• Rockwell Collins’ ARINC MultiLinkSM Flight Tracking Service –
– Provides an airline the ability to track their aircraft anywhere in the world.
– Tracking uses multiple data sources:
• ADS-B (ground-based sensors)
• ADS-C: Inmarsat, Iridium, HFDL
• U.S. Traffic Flow Management (TFM) Radar Data (US operations)
• EUROCONTROL position information
• ACARS position reports
• HFDL network performance data (includes latitude, longitude, and time)
– Aircraft position information is displayed, or delivered as a data feed.
• Offered as part of a complete datalink/ACARS package with Hermes and OpCenter
• Can be streamed to a carrier’s own situational display solution
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MultiLink
MultiLink• Multiple feeds provide accurate, global
coverage giving airline’s a trusted and real-time fleet status even in remote regions
• Aircraft position reporting times can be customised to meet both CAA and operational requirements
• Alerting options to quickly identify any potential issues with an aircraft’s status i.e. flight plan alteration, no comms & disabled media
• All available position data will be streamed
• Accurate tracking solution can save an airline money on datalink messages by not needing to send positioning data
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The Rockwell Collins Flight Tracking Solution
HFDL System Data
Feed ServerIngest Engine
Data is ingested
Harmonized into
standard format
Flight identifying
data added
Direct Feed To Airline’s situational display
WebASD/OpCenter
WebMapper/Hermes
Current Data Sources
ADS-B
ADS-C
TFM
EUROCONTROL
ACARS POS
Customer Filter
Customer is only
able to see their
aircraft
Data Validation
Suspect data is
flagged/removed
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Capability Demonstration
• The following are images of individual data feeds over a 24 hour period:
– ADS-C (selected carriers)
• Periodic reports
• Event reports
– Waypoint change event
– Level range deviation event
– Lateral deviation event
– Vertical rate change event
– ADS-B
– ANSP Radar Data (a.k.a. US TFM data)
– EUROCONTROL
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Capability Demonstration
• The next image shows the combination of all data readily available to industry, each for a 24 hour period:
– ADS-C (selected carriers)
– ADS-B (all available carriers)
– ANSP Radar Data (US operations)
– EUROCONTROL (all available carriers)
– ACARS Position Reports (selected carriers)
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Capability Demonstration
• The FINAL image shows the combination of all readily available industry data, each for a 24 hour period, PLUS…:
– ADS-C (selected carriers)
– ADS-B (all available carriers)
– ANSP Radar Data (US operations)
– ACARS Position Reports (for a small number of carriers)
– Including HFDL Performance Positional Data
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Example: Johannesburg – São Paulo
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ADS-C ADS-B HFDL Perf. Rpt.TFM ACARS
This flight demonstrates the use of 4 different data feeds to achieve a high frequency set of position reports.
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Alerting Options
• Rockwell Collins has engineered unique alerting options to quickly identify any potential issues with an aircraft’s status
– Silent / mute aircraft: Based on a 15-minute timer (which is configurable), an airline will receive a notification when an aircraft has not communicated its position
– Notifications will continue every two minutes until communications are established
– Flight plan deviation: Alert can be set up for deviation against actual flight plan
• Requires no new aircraft hardware or software configurations
• Leverages existing on-board communications capability