Aircraft
NAS Saves With Teledyne Data Loader

Norwegian Air Shuttle officials say that the airline’s adoption of the Teledyne Controls enhanced airborne data loader (eADL) for updating the navigation databases of its 42 Boeing 737s is saving it approximately $11,700 per month.

Aleksander Geist, senior avionics engineer at Norwegian Air Shuttle, said, “The installation of eADL has resulted in immediate and demonstrable improvements, and a real competitive advantage. Nav databases have to be changed every 28 days, and the process typically uses a set of six floppy disks that have to be loaded manually, each one in turn. If one of those disks fails to load, you have to start the process all over again. With eADL the speed of loading is the same but the process is automatic, which means the engineer can spend that time doing better things.