Aircraft
Data Loader From Teledyne Cuts Airline’s Costs

According to Teledyne Controls, its new enhanced Airborne Data Loader technology is “dramatically reducing” operating costs of Boeing 737NGs flown by low cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle. Savings of up to $11,700 per month for the fleet of 42 aircraft are being realized, simply because of the time saved by engineers loading navigational data into avionics databases.

“Navigation database discs have to be changed every 28 days and typically comprise a set of six discs that have to be loaded manually, each one in turn,” said Aleksander Geist, senior avionics engineer at Norwegian. “If one of those discs fails to load, you have to start the process all over again. With eADL, however, the speed of loading is the same but it is automatic, which means the engineer can spend that time doing better things.”