Wednesday, February 19, 2014

FANS-1 ACARS and Satcom must pass Airplane Equipment Interoperability Test (AEIT) (1995)

Boeing sold production and retrofit commitments to install and certify FANS-1 functionality without regard to specific ACARS and SATCOM part numbers.  All existing ACARS, and many SATCOM systems, do not support the Airplane Equipment Interoperability Test (AEIT) requirements.

Until their ACARS and SATCOM are approved, customers who purchased the FANS-1 changes will not be able to activate the air traffic services (ATS) function, which is not what they are expecting.

Airplane Personality Module

I presented opposition to the Airplane Personality Module, for reasons stated in this paper.

Airplane Personality Module (1996)

The decision was made to proceed, and ARINC 607 supplement was published in Aug 1998.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

TRANSITIONAL USE OF ARINC SPECIFICATION 622 (1994)

COMMENTS ON DRAFT REPORT ON ATNP/1 AGENDA ITEM 2:

"COMMUNICATION ASPECTS OF INTERFACING APPLICATIONS TO THE ATN (E.G...TRANSITIONAL USE OF ARINC SPECIFICATION 622",
14 JUNE 1994.

Inmarsat Satellite Communications (1994)

Four years after the first satcom on 747-400,  here is a snapshot of the technology, the interfaces, and the applications.