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A new flight data delivery solution for airlines
developed jointly by teams at Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen and Boeing Information Services slashes the time required
to deliver and load vital flight data to an airplane.
Application
Data Enhanced Loading (ADEL) is a solution that reduces overall
workload, network bandwidth requirements and costs associated with
airline data operations. ADEL supports Boeing and Jeppesen
Electronic Flight Bags.
"In a challenging business environment where
airlines are looking to reduce costs and workload wherever
possible, the Application Data Enhanced Loading solution provides
an important competitive advantage," said Tim Huegel, director,
Jeppesen Aviation Portfolio Management. "About 10% of
terminal chart data is changed per revision cycle, meaning this
optimized system for delivering flight data eliminates a large
amount of data transmittal and increases operational efficiency
for airlines."
ADEL enhances the delivery of frequently
changing airport terminal charting information, Windows-based
airport moving maps, electronic document browser (EDB) and onboard
performance tool (OPT) data associated with electronic flight bag
(EFB) use in the flight deck.
Previously, airlines were required to dispatch a
maintenance technician to load a digital file of up to 150
megabytes of updated EFB data to each airplane on a weekly basis.
Now, only the "delta set", or the EFB data that has been changed,
is required for wireless transmission, and the update can be
activated by flight crew. With ADEL, what would take technicians
up to an hour to perform can now be done by a flight crew in less
than one minute.
Korean Air is the first commercial aviation
operator to integrate the Application Data Enhanced Loading
solution to enhance its EFB-related data operations.
The ADEL solution incorporates Jeppesen's data delivery management (DDM) system and
integrates other Boeing technology to vastly improve the delivery
and loading of EFB data to the airplane.
"This is another step in Boeing's drive to
enable the Digital Airline," said John Maggiore, Director of
Airline Performance Management in Boeing Commercial Aviation
Services' Information Services business. "Enabling airlines to
manage the distribution of digital data on their fleets more
efficiently and at lower cost via ADEL will give our customers a
competitive edge."
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