UAL EFB Program

Captain Joe Burns Director – Flight Standards and Technology United Airlines

Agenda:

 Our EFB Drivers  Navigation Charts  Flight Manuals  Aircraft Communications  Cabin Surveillance  Safety  Security 

Weather

PAGE 2 | AUGUST 2006

Air_Net/EFB Components

 Back-office Servers and infrastructure  Charting Services  EFB and associated hardware  Type II and window mount  Power supplies  Network and WiFi connectivity  ARINC-429 read-only  Weather receiver  Weather provider PAGE 3 | AUGUST 2006

Type II Flight Deck Display Devices and Locations

EFB on our B747-400 EFB on B737 PAGE 4 | AUGUST 2006 Typical EFB

Project initiatives: AirNet – Phase 1 Phase 1 Scope

Deploy on A319/320 Fleet.

EFBs, charts and manuals as planned. Commodity weather data. Wireless network to simulators No wireless aircraft network.

No wireless ground network. Manual & chart updates are done via thumb drive update carried by pilots.

No integrated ground network providing information transfer or vendor visibility wirelessly to the aircraft.

Development of technical architecture.

Weather Link PAGE 5 | AUGUST 2006 CONDOR BERLIN

United Airlines

Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04

Project initiatives: AirNet – Phase 2 Phase 2 Scope

Deploy on all remaining fleets. Upgrade the first fleet during regularly scheduled maintenance to avoid additional cost.

EFBs, charts and manuals as planned.

Add UA specific weather Add wireless aircraft network as needed to support AirNet objectives and consistent with architecture.

Add wireless ground network as needed to support AirNet objectives and consistent with architecture.

Add integrated ground network providing information transfer or vendor visibility wirelessly into the aircraft.

Integrated Ground Network PAGE 6 | AUGUST 2006 Weather Link Aircraft Network CONDOR BERLIN Ground Link 802.11b- WiFi

United Airlines

Source: Flight Standards and technology, 4/04

Air_Net/EFB Justification considerations

 Communications platform  Pilot back injury reduction  Turbulence injury reduction  Convective reroute (block reduction)  Contingency fuel reduction  Transactional comm. reduction  Paper reduction  Weight reduction  Future avionics replacement PAGE 7 | AUGUST 2006

Communication requirements are growing exponentially

Each Constituent has Comparable Information – Accessed Via Multiple Paths Aggregated to Meet Mission Needs, Rather Than Link-to-Mission Design THE AIRPLANE THE AIRLINE*

PAGE 8 | AUGUST 2006

THE ATM SYSTEM * = C 2 Center

Reducing weight and data volume with AirNet/EFB

42 Lbs of paper vs.

10 grams of data!

PAGE 9 | AUGUST 2006

Common Onboard Data Network Infrastructure

PAGE 10 | AUGUST 2006

Common Onboard Data Network Infrastructure Operations Apps

Weather Electronic Manuals/Charts Cabin Surveillance Surface Moving Maps Flight Papers/Data FOQA Dataloader Maintenance reporting Email UNIMATIC/APOLLO Security PAGE 11 | AUGUST 2006

B747-400 Cabin Surveillance Phase 2 Evaluation System

Inmarsat R/C Swift 64 PEDs Verizon LRU 802.3 Bus Gate connection To Verizon Terrestrial Network PAGE 12 | AUGUST 2006

Cabin Surveillance with EFB and WiFi Portable Display

PAGE 13 | AUGUST 2006

FAMCOM: Air-Ground Security Communications

Satellite Network Data Link Data Links Data Links State and local govts.

DHS/TSA FAA Airline Operations DATA CENTER FAMS/BICE MOC Ground Networkk Data Link

PAGE 14 | AUGUST 2006

Navigation: Airspace Data Growth PAGE 15 | AUGUST 2006

Surface Moving Map with/without ownship on EFB

PAGE 16 | AUGUST 2006 Conducting First Actual Taxi Evaluation of United/FAA SMM at DEN

Communications: WINCOM Project Aviation Safety / Weather Information Communications

Chart Source: NASA GRC Presentation to the AEEC Data Link Users Forum, 2/07/01 PAGE 17 | AUGUST 2006

ACARS Paper printout vs. EFB weather

PAGE 18 | AUGUST 2006

Live EFB weather with Datalink

Live EFB Weather on our A320 Actual “Passenger” view of weather using Airfone connection PAGE 19 | AUGUST 2006

Reducing Turbulence Injuries with AirNet/EFB +

153744

+

155216

+

160400 Both Display formats available with EFB PAGE 20 | AUGUST 2006 Current ACARS display (UAL only)

North-up turbulence plot

PAGE 21 | AUGUST 2006

Track-up turbulence with SIGMET overlay plot

Making Strategic route decisions with EFB/Weather

PAGE 22 | AUGUST 2006

PAGE 23 | AUGUST 2006

Oklahoma TRW in/out view

What Now?

 Keep it simple! – we can add later  Keep it functional! – need HF  This is not a science or R/D project anymore  Effective and efficient training – think out of the box  What to do with paper?

 Installations must start this year.

PAGE 24 | AUGUST 2006

Thank You!

Captain Joe Burns United Airlines [email protected]

PAGE 25 | AUGUST 2006