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AeroTech’s
TAPS is designed to improve pilots’, dispatchers’, and controllers’
situational awareness of the location and severity of turbulence
hazards without increasing their workload, so that turbulence
related injuries can be avoided and unplanned costs can
be reduced.
TAPS
is a non-flight critical software application residing in
an aircraft’s computer system that automates the reporting
of all significant aircraft encounters with any variety
of turbulence (convective, clear air, mountain wave, and
wake). Via data link TAPS provides pilots, dispatchers,
and controllers real-time, relevant, objective turbulence
hazard information from which they can quickly and easily
understand the potential impact that reported turbulence
may have on their aircraft. The displayed turbulence information
is scaled to their aircraft, so that the pilots, dispatchers,
and controllers do not have to infer the probable effects
on their airframe, which is required to interpret current
turbulence information.
TAPS
Today:
Under the NASA Turbulence
Prediction and Warning System ( TPAWS
) program, AeroTech’s TAPS algorithms have been
installed on 123 Delta Air Lines aircraft (B-737-800, B-767-300ER,
and B-767-400ER) and have been broadcasting turbulence reports
while the Delta aircraft are flown in revenue service. The
reports are being displayed on an evaluation version of ARINC’s
Web Aircraft Situation Display ( WebASD
) and are being used and evaluated by Delta Air
Lines dispatchers. As of August 2, 2006, over 76,060 TAPS
reports have been generated. The reports have been made
from throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii,
Canada, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, India, and the
North Atlantic.
Please
click on the links at the top of the page to find out more
on TAPS and how it can reduce injuries and unplanned costs
in your organization.
If
you have any questions or want more information regarding
TAPS, please download the White Papers below and/or email
AeroTech at info@atr-usa.com.
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