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Integrated Flight Information System
(IFIS)Weather products
Mary Beth Lapis
(319) 295-3045
Dan Gienger
(319) 295-7038
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IFISMajor Focus Areas
Improved Situational Awareness - Enhanced Safety Electronic Charts – Aircraft Symbol Overlaid Real-time Strategic Weather FMS maps with geopolitical boundaries, geographical features, Airways, and Airspace
Improved Cockpit Efficiency Eliminate Paper from the cockpit Intelligent Integration of Information
Charts and weather on forward displaysFMS flight plan integrated with charts and weather functionsUser Interface evaluated, modified, and approved by pilots
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Uplink Graphical Weather (On MFD)
Product Capabilities
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System Architecture
Hardware Upgraded Display File Server Unit Cursor Control Panel
Software Electronic Charts Graphical Weather Enhanced Map Overlays
(Geopolitical, Airways, Airspace) Upload Capabilities
ARINC 615-A: FSU Software and Databases
R-CCP
= A429= Ethernet
L-CCP
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User Interface CCP-3000
Dedicated Chart Controls (CHART, ROTATE) Pan (Joystick) and ZOOM (Charts and XM) Programmable Quick Access Keys Menu controls
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Upper Window OFF Checklist FMS text window
Lower Window Rose (Seldom Enabled) Arc (Seldom Enabled) PPOS Map PLAN Map GWX Only Enhance Map Overlay TCAS only
MFD - Split Window Formats
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Universal Weather - Graphical Weather
Graphical Weather Information Service
Provider is Universal Weather
Ground-based data services provided on a request/reply basis
Subscriptions handled by Collins or Universal Weather
Offering 3 Subscription plans for textual and graphical weather
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NEXRAD Winds/Temps Icing
Turbulence Tops/Movement Wx Depiction
Universal Weather - Graphical Weather Products
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North Atlantic Winds/temps – FL 390
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European turbulence forecast
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Northern Pacific Turbulence forecast- FL300
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UV Wx International Regions
Winds/temps, Graphical METARS, icing, turbulence available for:
•USA and 6 sub-regions
•North and South America
•North and South Atlantic
•North and South Pacific
•Africa
•India
•Australia
•Europe
•Asia
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XM Weather - Graphical Weather
XM Graphical Weather Ground-based data services
provided by Baron on a broadcast basis
Continuous Feed All Products Broadcast Every 12
Minutes Full CONUS CoverageAutomated/Unlimited Updates
(No Request Necessary) Geosynchronous Satellites
In Air/On Ground Reception XM Radio Services (Satellite
Provider) Single “GPS Like” Antenna
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NEXRAD (1 NM Resolution) Echo Tops Graphical and Textual METARs Graphical and Textual SIGMETs Textual AIRMETs Textual TAFs
XM Weather - Graphical Weather Products
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Integrated User Interface Consists of CCP and AFD (No CDU Required)
Pan (Similar to Electronic Charts) 3 Zoom Levels System Utilization Integrated With Collins FMS NEXRAD Animation (5 frames) NEXRAD Overlay on PLAN Map Flight Info Overlay on GWx formats
XM Weather - Graphical Weather Features
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Enhanced Map Overlays
Example Format With EIS Displayed
Upper Window Checklist
Lower Window PLAN Map
GeopoliticalNEXRAD
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