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Esterline CMC Electronics (CMC) is showcasing FlightView, its real-time, terrain situational awareness application for the first time at the company’s booth (#1214) at the Air and Space Conference and Technology Expo at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. The application will be hosted on CMC’s TacView Portable Mission Display, a stand-alone avionics grade, portable smart display for cockpit and streamlined airborne operations.
FlightView provides the pilot and crew with a real-time, visual picture of flight critical details, geographic features, obstacles and terrain in any geographical location in the world. FlightView facilitates flight plan entry tasks by allowing editing, saving and recalling previously entered plans, and also allows flight crews to virtually navigate or “play” the flight route of entered flight plans in either Synthetic Vision or Moving Map mode viewing. FlightView is FAA AC 23-26 compliant, allowing for Synthetic Vision and Pathway depiction on the Primary Flight Display.
Jean-Michel Comtois, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Government and Public Affairs, Esterline CMC Electronics, stated: “Leveraging the high-end processing capabilities of CMC’s TacView Portable Mission Display, FlightView delivers an exceptional, real- time rendering of the outside environment, providing the pilot and crew with at-a-glance situational awareness. Since TacView is a stand-alone display and intended for autonomous operations, the combined system can be quickly deployed into a wide range of military aircraft.”
Designed for use in harsh environments, the TacView system increases crew efficiency by hosting applications that provide situational awareness and reduce cockpit workload. TacView can interface with a number of radio and Satcom data link systems, and provides access to moving maps, mission planning systems, approach plates, checklists, flight and maintenance manuals, frequency and call sign lists, passenger and cargo manifests as well as any other customer created “Windows” based applications, software and documents.
TacView was selected for the U.S. Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command Real Time Information in the Cockpit (RTIC) Full Rate Production (FRP) program. The contract covers dual installations of the TacView system on board a total of fifty-six C-130H aircraft with the potential for follow-on options. The U.S. Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command have identified the RTIC Program as one of their top priorities. The Air National Guard intends to employ the TacView systems to provide situational awareness to the crew through the use of an integrated tactical data link over a moving map, and to facilitate paperless cockpit operations, including aircraft performance calculation.
