ACARS Ground Solution

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B.Rekencentra N.V.

• ACARS Ground Solution

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Objective

• Present new ACARS ground solution
• Describe system components
• Demonstrate Ar-Com strengths

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Customer Needs

• Ease of use
• Configurable
• Modern open architecture
• Adapt to changing needs
• In house maintenance
• Secure use

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System Overview
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System components

• Administration program (Client server module)
• Configuration data dictionary
• Configuration aircraft
• Configuration messages and their interpretation
• Configuration of custom routing
• Configuration of uplink messages

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System components

• ANL (Background processing)
• Separate modules per network
• Receives messages from network
• Transmits messages to network
• Following network gateways are in place
• SITA via SITATEX
• SITA via MQ series
• Email
• MQ series
• Wingspeedcorp via email
• Wingspeedcorp via MQ series
• Airinc in development

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System components

• APS (Background processing)
• Message recognition
• Message interpretation
• Perform custom routingFor example
• Receive OOOI, transform to MVA, forward to
  Operations control system
• Receive loadsheet from WB, uplink to aircraft
• Receive engine report, transform and transmit to
  engine performance system
• Receive message from aircraft and transmit to
  other aircraft

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System components

• Ar-Com Online (browser enabled)
• Show inbound message details
• Alert users about critical messages
• Uplink to aircraft
• FSD Flight Situation Display (browser enabled)
• Show flight on a geographical map
• Show fuel flight level status
• Show downlink messages
• Transmit uplink messages

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Ease of use

• Web browser interface
• On line help available (in development)
• User interface configurable
• Windows based administration tool
• No installation on clients
• Single server solution possible

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Open architecture

• Data stored in ODBC supported relational database
  (e.g.Oracle)
• 3rd party processing possibility (Plug-in) via
  routing
• Component based

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In house maintenance

• Relational database
• Modify recognition and interpretation of existing
  messages
• Self-support for new messages
• Define /Change uplinks

Fully configurable through ADM2000
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ADM2000

• Windows based Administration tool
• Easy configuration of Ar-Com
• User groups / security
• Aircraft
• Messages
• Interpretation
• Uplinks
• Routing
• Network links

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Secure access

• Group based security providing
• Controlled aircraft access
• Controlled uplink possibility
• Controlled user access
• Controlled message type access

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Sample Physical model

• Single Server running
• Internet Information Server
• Oracle database version 10
• APS
• ANL Incoming - ANLDirIn
• ANL Outgoing - SitaFileOut
• (ANLs use Sitatex file gateway)

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Benefits

• Self-support
• Easy maintenance
• Extensible
• Secure storage of data

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Some Users

• TUI Airline Group 200 Aircraft
• Tuifly
• Thomson
• Jetairfly
• Arkefly
• Neosair
• Jet4you
• DHL aviation 50 aircraft
• TNT airways 40 aircraft

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Sample downlink

• Turn this

HEADERRCV,2001/03/07 0415PRIORITYQUDESTINA
TION TYPE BSTX,ORIGINQXSXMXSMSGID070
415SMIDFDTEXTFI /AN DT QXS
1 070415 D95A- TKO1010703041500580016016
43275693790440000934093509650965771782103125041790
42010075007562600490510570070420050030070130163022
5731916803290293177063606441100000011U1541N5228E00
9473993404104971N0123
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Into data
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Into an alternate form
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Sample uplink
Instead of remembering cryptic codes
QU QXSXMXS .XXXXXXX M3L /AN XXXXXXX 0001211203
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Sample uplink
Just fill in the blanks
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FSD

• Shows
• Geographical map
• Flexible zoom and pan
• Planned route with waypoints (Flightplan)
• Actual Route
• Actual position of A/C
• Airports

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FSD

• Graph shows
• Planned fuel
• Actual fuel
• Planned flight level
• Actual flight level

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FSD

• Uplink
• Select message type
• Input other values
• Apply Uplink button

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FSD

• Airport information
• METAR
• Short Term Forecast
• Long Term Forecast
• Temperture
• NOTAM
• AIRMET
• SIGMET

? Information retrieved from flight planning
system
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FSD

• Flight Plan information
• Information used to
• Plot planned route
• Plot fuel graph
• Plot Flight Level graph

? Information retrieved from flight planning
system
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FSD

• Messages
• Downlink Uplink per A/C
• Message details
• Info
• Text
• Alternate text
• Data elements
• Routing results
• Custom flags

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FSD

• Critical Messages
• User is alerted
• Message details as normal messages

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FSD
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FSD

• Configurable FSD
• Every window can be viewed or not
• Windows size and location is stored
• Windows contents are synchronized

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On-line Demo

• A demo version is reachable on our test server.
• Please browse to one of the following addresses
• Classic Ar-Com http//maya.rekencentra.be/Arcom
• FSD http//maya.rekencentra.be/ArComFsdSL
• Please request username and password to use the
  demo

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byB.RekenCentra N.V.

• Thank you

Contact information Karel Tavernier Tel 32 3
470 14 00 Mail Karel.Tavernier_at_Rekencentra.be