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NASA Tests New Traffic Planning App Aboard Avanti
The Piaggio Avanti tests helped clear the way for a more formal three-year test program of the Traffic Aware Planner application.

NASA recently completed a few tests of its new Traffic Aware Planner (TAP) application aboard a Piaggio P.180 Avanti pusher prop, clearing the software for a more formal three-year test program in partnership with Virgin America and Alaska Airlines. TAP connects to the aircraft’s avionics to make “traffic-aware strategic aircraft requests,” (TASAR), according to David Wing, TASAR project lead at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.


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