Emirates acts to stop runway incursions
Emirates Airlines has decided to add a Honeywell safety upgrade intended to prevent runway incursions to its fleet of more than 100 airliners.
Emirates Airlines has decided to add a Honeywell safety upgrade intended to prevent runway incursions to its fleet of more than 100 airliners. The Runway Awareness and Advisory System (RAAS) is a software upgrade of the airplanes’ existing ground-proximity alerting system that warns pilots of potentially dangerous situations on runways and taxiways.
Using GPS position information and a detailed database of airport runways, RAAS issues aural advisories that cover a variety of situations. For example, the system will tell the crew how much runway distance remains during rejected takeoffs or long landings and warns them if they inadvertently try to take off from a taxiway or a runway that is too short.
