Boeing Debuts Jeppesen Tailored Charts For Avionics Service; Initial Rollout On Embraer Commercial Jets
Boeing recently introduced a new Jeppesen Tailored Charts for Avionics navigation service designed to improve pilots’ flight-deck operational efficiency. Jeppesen, a Boeing company since 2000, describes Tailored Charts for Avionics as an extension of its tailored chart services for clients who operate aircraft equipped with qualifying avionics. Essentially, the service enables pilots to tailor charts for viewing on front-panel avionics displays. Boeing is initially introducing the service with Honeywell Primus Epic INAV avionics systems for charts customers who operate Embraer E2 commercial jets. Eventually, Boeing plans to offer it for systems from other “popular” avionics manufacturers.
Working Independently
Jeppesen says it has worked with customers for decades to modify its standard coverages and charts to meet various “unique requirements” from worldwide operators. Jeppesen previously delivered its tailored charts services in paper format and via mobile devices/EFBs (electronic flight bags). Now, “the evolution continues, as Jeppesen tailored charts can now be integrated with select front-panel avionics,” Jeppesen says.
The first customer to use the service is Wideroe, a Norwegian regional airline. Espen Bergsland, Wideroe chief pilot for Embraer E2 aircraft, says tailored charts work “as a redundant chart-display system to reduce risk of disruptions.” He adds that pilots can view a flight’s active phase on front-panel avionics while displaying the next flight phase on a tablet EFB, enabling a flight deck crew to execute tasks independently. Mike Abbott of Boeing Digital Solutions & Analytics, meanwhile, says the tool “helps pilots enhance situational awareness and information processing by displaying an airline’s tailored charts and company-specific operational content on the front panel,” thus providing “redundancy with EFB services and flexibility in accessing flight-critical information.”
Multiple Benefits
Among the benefits of viewing differing data sets on different devices that Jeppesen highlights is a reduction in paper on the flight deck, more options/flexibility for crews to display data, more efficient workflows, easier identification of mission-/company-relevant data by pilots for increased situational awareness, and more overall redundancy.
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Source: Boeing
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