AirEuropa Experience

Global Flight Tracking

9th Annual Flight Operations Conference, Rome 1 December 2015

Giovanni Esposito
AIRCOM | Head of Business Development EURO
AirEuropa Fleet:
Different airplanes: Boeing 737-800, Airbus A330-220/300 and Embraer 195
Different manufacturers
Different operations: short, medium and long range
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What makes AIRCOM FlightTracker Unique?

Largest number of tracking sources with smoothing algorithm

Multiple sources including ADS-B, ATC Radar, Eurocontrol, FAA, ACARS and FANS
Unique smoothing algorithm ensures consistent and accurate aircraft position display
Future Air Navigation System tracking for global and frequent tracking
AIRCOM FlightTracker uniquely uses the FANS system on the aircraft when terrestrial
tracking is not available
Tracking interval configurable by the airline to maximise effectiveness
Advanced alerting
Ability to create alerts based on aircraft position and ATC communication
Global FANS tracking means alerts can be triggered globally

Most position sources, advanced weather and FANS capability

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Positions from multiple sources

Automatically trigger ACARS (FANS) over the ocean

Review the current weather conditions

Look at the weather RADAR, review impact on the flight

Significant weather warnings and thunder storms

Standard SIGMETs, compare with advanced Thunderstorms forecast

Turbulence Forecast

EDR Turbulence check at an alternative altitude

Set up Sequences to trigger alerts and actions

Automatic responses to loss of position reporting

Automatic warnings for potential problems

For example, a tracked aircraft misses a report

Easily see alert status

Alerts are shown on the map, the aircraft list and messages
can be triggered to email, text, etc.
3 Advanced Weather Information
 Current Conditions

Fronts / Pressure
Volcanic Ash Centres

SIGMET
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Forecast Layers
Tropical Storm

Animated RADAR

Lightning

Fronts, Jetsreams,
pressure centres

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Flight Hazards
EDR Turbulence
Provides EDR (eddy dissipation rate) based forecasts
Covers 24 hours globally (36 hours period for US)

Thunderstorms
36 hour global forecast
RADAR-like display

Icing
24 hour global forecast

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e-Aircraft Nose-to-Tail solutions
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Aircraft Health AIRCOM

Internet OnAir CrewTab EFB
Management FlightMessenger
Inflight Wi-Fi Digital crew Digital flight operation AIRCOM Server
operations OEM Data
AIRCOM FlightTracker
Real-time flight
OnAir Play Crew Retail EFB Weather Services Aircraft Data tracking/ GSL
On-demand Weather situational Aircraft operations i-border risk tracker
Live onboard sales awareness
entertainment IT & connectivity AIRCOM
VQAR* Information Services
Mobile OnAir Crew Services Surface weather,
Concierge QAR management
Mobile data, d-ATIS gateway,
SMS and voice Wind up link
Aircraft
Maintenance AIRCOM
Digital aircraft FlightPlanner
Device Management operations Flight navigation
Mobilty Including Flight briefing

SITA OnAir enablers

Aircraft Communications & Information Services
Flight Tracker : Summary of comments

Very positive feedback received from flight dispatchers and fleet

managers.
-Easy to use and intuitive.
-Powerful combination of accurate aircraft position data and weather
information on a graphical display.
-Very adequate system to comply with the Operational Control
requirements (ORO.GEN.110(c) of EASA AIR-OPS).
-Appropriate tool to link in-flight with flight planning phases.
 Giovanni Esposito
Head of Business Development - EURO
SITA OnAir
50, Via virgilio Maroso
00142 Roma, Italia

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