Avionics
Harris White Paper Describes GA Access to Swim’s Data Pool

Harris Corp: Aircraft Access to Swim for General Aviation

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The FAA’s $550 million system-wide information management (Swim) program to fashion a unified information management system from the various flight data, weather and advisory systems used in the National Airspace System calls to mind a hub-and-spoke computer network exchanging digital signals with the big iron in the sky. But thanks to the seemingly never-ending utility of tablet computers such as the Apple iPad, GA pilots operating closer to earth could realize the benefits of Swim.