MUMBAI- UAE’s Flag carrier Emirates Airlines (EK) late joined the global Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Turbulence Awareness Platform and will be the first airline to integrate this platform with the latest version of Lido mPilot, Lufthansa Systems’ mobile navigation solution.
Likewise, India’s largest airline, IndiGo (6E) is besides investigating software that will aid them detect turbulence that can affect the aircraft in flight.
Photo: EmiratesEmirates IATA Turbulence
This integration provides pilots with extended data and advanced technologies, offering real-time, highly accredited turbulence information and forecasts. This aid pilots to plan safer, more effective flight path, optimal navigation and flight plans.
Additional, Emirates has equipped over 140 aircraft with software to automatically share turbulence reports with another airlines on the platform.
New aircraft sharing the Emirates Fleet, including the Airbus A350 and Boeing 777-9, 777-8, and 787 will besides be able to participate in this program.
Photo: EmiratesExecutive Remarks
Captain Hassan Alhammadi, Divisional elder Vice President, Flight Operations at Emirates Airline, standing:
“By participating in IATA’s Turbulence Aware platforms and equipping our pilots with advanced technologies like the Lido mPilot mobile navigation solution from Lufthansa Systems, we are committed to enhancing operational safety, efficiency, and passenger comfort on all flight.
We are arrogant to contribute turbulence data from our extended mediate East network and routes across Africa, Asia, Australia, and another regions. This initiative will enhance manufacture cognition for managing turbulence and evolving weather patterns with large precision.
This is just the beginning, and we plan to integrate more cutting-edge technologies to further improve the flying experience, engaging smooth journeys for our customers.”
Captain Hassan Alhammadi, Emirates
Frederic Leger, IATA's elder Vice president of Commercial Products and Services, commented:
“Mitigating the other effects of turbulence is an industry-wide challenge, and obtaining accurate, real-time data is essential. The collaboration between IATA Turbulence Aware, Emirates, and Lufthansa Systems will enhance the quality and quality of real-time data available to the industry, leading to smoother and safer air travel for everyone.”
Andreas Medlhammer, Product Owner of Pilot Charting Apps at Lufthansa Systems, added:
“IATA Turbulence Aware data enriches Lido mPilot by providing pilots with real-time, Accurate, and comprehensive turbulence information, enabling them to make informed decisions and navigation more effective. Integrating this data into Lido mpilot allows Emirates Airline to increase safety, reduce fuel consumption, and minimize passenger discomfort, yet enhancing operational efficiency and client satisfaction.”
Photo: EmiratesWhat is IATA’s Turbulence Aware Program?
IATA’s Turbulence Awareness is simply a global, real-time resource that provides detailed and nonsubjective information to aid pilots and aviation professionals manage and reduce the impact of turbulence on operations.
Turbulence, a leading case of passenger and crew injuries, besides increases fuel consumption. The platforms include anonymized turbulence data from thousands of flights worldwide. This data enable pilots and dispatchers to choice optimal flight path, avoiding turbulence and flying at optimal attributes to increase fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
So far, Turbulence Aware has included to Safer flights for over 700 million passengers, with more airlines joining the program continuously.
Lido mPilot, developed by Lufthansa Systems, is simply a comprehensive mobile navigational charting application covered to Emirates’ circumstantial operational needs. It provides pilots with easy access to terminal charts, a dynamically generated enroute map, and an Airport Moving Map (AMM).
The application’s data-driven, interactive maps, along with the latest weather features applicable to each flight, guarantee enhanced situational awareness and supply pilots with the most permanent information for their operations.
Photo: Siddh Dhuri | MumbaiPlanesIndiGo Turbulence Software Testing
While pilots trust on aircraft weather radars and air traffic control inputs to avoid storm clouds, the fresh software provides an additional safety layer for flight operations.
IndiGo Airlines told HinduBusinessLine,
“To guarantee a safe and comfortable in-flight experience, the airline is constantly exploring fresh technologies and evaluating in-flight safety inspections. Recently, IndiGo conducted trials on fresh software and plans to launch another trial for its Airbus Fleet in the next 2 to 3 weeks. As the agreement is inactive being finalised, the airline will announce the software name based on the trial agreement developments.”
Although IndiGo has been investigating the application for respective months, fresh Trials follow fresh turbulence incidents involving Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways, which results in injuries to passengers.
The software measures the frequency of turbulence and records its location and altitude. It is besides effective in detecting clear air turbulence, which onboard weather radars cannot easy detect.
Currently, IndiGo aircraft black net connection, so turbulence data is only available after the aircraft lands, presenting a challenge.
Typically, pilots review electricity weather and wind conditions as part of their pre-flight formulations, with this information provided by flight dispatchers or sourced from iPad applications in airlines like Air India and IndiGo.
IndiGo besides hires in-house meteorologists who inform pilots about weather conditions and address on carrying extra fuel for possible diversions. Simulary, Qantas (QF) from Australia has meteorologists monitoring weather 24/7, from tropical storms to erupting volcanoes.
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