Professional Pilot, January 2019

A look a what Collins ADS B In offers TCAS You are at FL360 ADS B In T he countdown is on Were less than 1 year away from the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast Out ADS B Out mandate in the US But as a Professional Pilot reader you already know ADS B Out is only half the story and that real benefits for operators are realized when theyre equipped with ADS B In NASAs recent issue of CALLBACK 466 titled Too Close for Comfort articulated that the Aviation Safety Reporting System ASRS has received many reports of both near mid air collisions and critical ground conflicts Lack of Situational Awareness SA was often cited ADS B In will help reduce these near misses with traffic displays presenting high accuracy ground and airborne traffic information raising crew SA and aiding visual acquisition of nearby traffic Lest you think that ADS B In and Cockpit Display of Traffic Information CDTI is just for light General Aviation GA aircraft think again Nearly half of new Boeing 787s are being delivered with certified ADS B In traffic displays Many aircraft and 54 PROFESSIONAL PILOT January 2019 avionics manufacturers currently offer or are developing ADS B In traffic awareness systems The first 2 articles in this ADS B In series described the system and highlighted benefits associated with cockpit display of traffic obtained from ADS B systems As a review ADS B Out is the automatic broadcast of own ships position track speed and other information for use by Air Traffic Control ATC ground systems as well as ADS B In equipped aircraft in the vicinity ADS B In is the capability to receive and display ADS B Out information from nearby aircraft and traffic information uplinked from ground stations ADS B In presents precise target position of airborne and ground targets flight ID wake turbulence category aircraft squawking emergency and most importantly target track information Cockpit ADS B In displays resemble the radar scopes viewed by air traffic controllers Ground based primary and secondary surveillance radar position updates occur as infrequently as 5 seconds for terminal radar and 12 seconds for enroute radar But ADS B position updates occur every second thus improving accuracy and situational awareness in ATC facilities as well as in cockpits of ADS B In equipped operators In this article Collins Aerospace ADS B In traffic awareness system offerings and future plans are described Collins Aerospace ADS B In Collins Aerospace formerly Rockwell Collins supplies the ADS B In technology currently certified and fielded on the Boeing 787 aircraft The traffic awareness benefits are delivered through the Integrated Surveillance System 2100 ISS 2100 which has been standard equipment on 787s from the first delivery in 2011 The ISS 2100 efficiently combines weather radar Terrain Awareness and Warning System TAWS Traffic Collision Avoidance System TCAS traffic computer and Mode S transponder into a single avionics unit According to Mike McDowell commercial avionics marketing manager at Collins Aerospace the company plans to certify the same system on the Boeing 777X later this year The ISS 2100 software application for Cockpit Display of Traffic Information CDTI has been certified and available since 2015 and is offered as an option to airline purchasers According to Bill Richards a technical fellow at Boeing roughly 40 of 787 aircraft are delivered with the ADS B In option Airlines choosing to initially forego ADS B In purchase can do so later via simple software upgrade McDowell anticipates that TARGET POSITIONING Detailed info on threat evaluation is a real benefit TCAS display on the left tells the viewer of the presence of an aircraft below that is climbing ADS B In display on the right clearly shows that Jet Blue 2007 is converging but intends to level off below By Marty Rollinger ATP Challenger 600 604 Falcon 2000 EASy and McDonnell Douglas F A 18 PP Contributing Writer