Avionics
RAAS Keeps Aircraft Apart When on the Ground
Here at EBACE Honeywell is exhibiting its runway awareness and advisory system (RAAS), which gives the crew of an airplane the proper information to avoid

Here at EBACE Honeywell is exhibiting its runway awareness and advisory system (RAAS), which gives the crew of an airplane the proper information to avoid making a runway incursion. “We took advantage of the EGPWS [enhanced ground proximity warning system] database, which includes runways, and developed a software program that improves the pilots’ situational awareness when on the ground or on approach to landing,” Karl Klewer, Honeywell’s avionics technical manager, told EBACE Convention News. The RAAS gives the crew aural advisories.

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