Honeywell Helps Europe Meet Future ATM Needs
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Honeywell's SmartPath ground-based augmentation system provides the enhanced accuracy and integrity needed to support precision approaches.
Honeywell's SmartPath ground-based augmentation system provides the enhanced accuracy and integrity needed to support precision approaches.

Honeywell, the only U.S. company to be chosen as an original member of the Sesar Joint Undertaking tasked with developing technologies for post-2020 air traffic management in Europe, demonstrated work in progress at its research center in the Czech city of Brno last week.

One project is an initial four-dimensional (I4-D) trajectory planning system involving the flight management system (FMS) and communications management unit. Incorporating time into 3-D route planning and coordinating flight plans to eliminate conflicts has an effect analogous to turning every traffic light green on the drive home from the office, said Honeywell Aerospace president EMEAI Paolo Carmassi. The result should be shorter flight times and reduced fuel burn.