Enhanced Nav Package
aBout the author
ABOVE: The Gulfstream PlaneView flight deck by Honeywell displays XM Weather satel- Brian Finnegan is president of Finnegan Aviation, LLC, an
lite cloud coverage over the Honeywell Interactive Navigation (INAV) system. A legend
aviation services organization. Brian oversees the devel-
and date stamp from the last update provide the pilot with additional details.
opment and administration of individual specialization
have WAAS TSO-145 boxes. “So, that’s a card upgrade, certifications for aviation technicians with PRI, an affiliate
not a major box change that you have to send back,” said of SAE International. Brian served as the president of the
Saland. Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) and
The antennae for WAAS are different antennae model has extensive experience in aviation safety as an accident
numbers, so there is hardware involved with that modifica- investigator, as a manager of air safety investigation and
tion. The ADS-B Out is a new transponder that requires as a Field Service Engineer on the F/A-18 Hornet fighter
a hardware change. “It needs GPS input, which we’re not aircraft. He is an A&P mechanic with a B.S. in Aviation
doing today,” added Saland. “It’s a mixture of hardware Maintenance Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
and software, but you are not reinventing the cockpit. Most University.
of the annunciators and most of the look and feel can be
modified because that’s just a graphic today. Its not an
actual bezel or controller or something else.”
The issue of surface incursions and running into other
vehicles, even trucks, is something FAA is pushing to
improve. According to Saland, FAA is looking to use ADS-B
Out to broadcast everybody’s position on some kind of a
surface management map. He noted that Honeywell has
been working on that, as have others, but it’s not there
yet. Today, pilots have a chart of the airport and their own
position on it, so it helps them taxi, but it doesn’t show
anybody else on it. That is where that surface management
improvements are going to help.
When it comes to maintenance recommendations for
the EASy II upgrade, maintenance professionals should be
aware that certain items are going to be mandatory, so it’s
not a question of “Should I”, but rather one of knowing
how to get the airplane upgraded. “If you are talking about
ADS-B Out,” noted Saland, “that transponder is going to
be a requirement in Europe much sooner than in the US.
You’re going to have to do something to address that.”
If you want to take advantage of WAAS LPV approaches,
maintenance will need to swap out the GPS and the anten-
na. But more so, they will need the annunciators and the
autopilot. There needs to be a path to implement some of
this new technology because some of it is going to be man-
datory. “For example, in the Hudson Bay (Canada) area, you
need ADS-B Out today between 35,000 and 40,000 feet,”
observed Saland. “So if you want access to the airspace,
you’re going to have to upgrade.”
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