AIRCOM

FlightTracker
Paul Gibson – Portfolio Director SITA OnAir
AIRCOM FlightTracker
Overview
 SITA OnAir Solution for Flight Tracking
Cost effective aircraft tracking to meet ICAO/IATA guidelines

AIRLINE NEEDS FEATURES

• Meet the need for aircraft • Configurable tracking with

tracking using existing aircraft frequency of update set by the
systems airline

• Use multiple data sources to • Fuses multiple sources of data

provide complete coverage to give global tracking

• Awareness of weather • Standard aviation weather layers

conditions and hazards and industry leading flight
hazards forecasts
• Proactive alerting to identify • Automatic alerting based on
potential problems
multiple factors
• Diagnostic tools to investigate • ATC communication display to
issues
provide additional insight

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FlightTracker  Demo
Coverage
ADS-B Station Regional Growth
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ADS-B Coverage in India

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India Sites July 2015
Country City Airport Stations

India Mumbai Chatrapati Shivaji Int'l (VABB / BOM) 5

India Pune (Poona) Pune / Lohegaon Air Force Base (VAPO / PNQ) 1

India Behala Behala (VEBA) 2

India Kolkata (Calcutta) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Int'l (VECC / CCU) 2

India Rourkela Rourkela (VERK / RRK) 1

India Bhatinda Bhisiana Air Force Base (VIBT / BUP) 3

India New Delhi Indira Gandhi Int'l (VIDP / DEL) 1

India Kota Kota (VIKO / KTU) 1

India Bangalore, Karnataka Bengaluru Int'l (VOBL / BLR) 1

India Kochi / Nedumbassery Cochin Int'l (Kochi Int'l) (VOCI / COK) 2

India Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi Int'l (VOHS / HYD) 2

India Mysore Mysore (VOMY / MYQ) 1

India Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram Int'l (VOTV / TRV) 2

India Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam (VOVZ / VTZ) 1

(Vishakhapatnam)
India Yelahanka Yelahanka Air Force Station (VOYK) 2

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New India Sites - August/September

• Bhopal - India
• Chennai / Madras - India (2)
• Chandigarh, India
• Goa - India
• Gujarat, India
• Gurgaon, HR India
• Hyderabad - India
• Indore - India
• Jamshedpur - India
• Kanpur - India
• Karnataka, India
• Kochi - India
• Maharashtra, India
• Nagpur - India
• New Delhi - India (3)
• Patna - India Global  Site  Growth  2014/15
• West Bengal, India

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Alerting
AIRCOM FlightTracker Alerts

• Consistent global coverage

makes alerting possible:
• Alerts today
• Any message based alert
• No position update for X
minutes
• Alerts by end 2015
• Deviation from flight plan
• Entry/exit defined areas
• Alerts can trigger other
actions e.g.
• Request more frequent
positions
• Request engine data

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Weather and Hazards
Avoid Flight Hazards

• EDR Turbulence – check at an alternative altitude

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Using ATC Data
 Future Air Navigation System (FANS)

• AIRCOM FlightTracker allows airlines to

use the FANS capability of equipped
aircraft:
• Automatic Dependent Surveillance
- Contract (ADS-C)
• Allows AIRCOM
FlightMessenger to “force”
position updates when out of
terrestrial coverage
• Controller Pilot Datalink ACARS%
Processor
Communications (CPDLC)
• Move controller/pilot
communication from voice to
data
• ATN Facilities Notification (AFN)
• Used to set up CPDLC
sessions with ATC
• Can be used for alerting
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 Filling the gaps with ADS-C

• Automatically trigger ACARS (FANS) over the ocean

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Using CPDLC to bring insight …

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… back on track

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Summary

• SITA OnAir has responded quickly to an industry need

• We have focussed on some things that are SITA
OnAir strengths:
• Global focus
• Integration of ATC systems and data
• Simple solution to an airline community challenge
• We have tested the solution with airlines (MH and SQ)
to build a roadmap
The most complete solution
Able to meet and exceed ICAO recommendation and DGCA
mandate
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Paul Gibson
Portfolio Director

SITA OnAir
71, av. Louis Casaï, PO Box 42
1216 Cointrin, Geneva, Switzerland

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www.sitaonair.aero