Badmachine
3rd Jul 2009, 22:22
Do the FANS functions of the B757 B767 Pegasus FMS support the "Dynamic Rerouting" functions available in other FANS capable FMSs?
"Dynamic Rerouting, meaning the ability of controllers ... to change a filed routing once the flight is in progress ... "[The] new flight plan with all new waypoints goes into the data link to the comm satellite and is then downlinked into the FMSes of the individual aircraft," O'Keefe explained. "And 'Wow,' say all the old pilots, 'Untouched by human hands!'" ... Our [dispatch] computer uplinks a route into the FMS that is identified as 'Route 2.' [You're already flying 'Route 1.']"
FANS: Where Is It for Business Aviation? | AVIATION WEEK (http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=bca&id=news/FANS033.xml)
"Dynamic Rerouting, meaning the ability of controllers ... to change a filed routing once the flight is in progress ... "[The] new flight plan with all new waypoints goes into the data link to the comm satellite and is then downlinked into the FMSes of the individual aircraft," O'Keefe explained. "And 'Wow,' say all the old pilots, 'Untouched by human hands!'" ... Our [dispatch] computer uplinks a route into the FMS that is identified as 'Route 2.' [You're already flying 'Route 1.']"
FANS: Where Is It for Business Aviation? | AVIATION WEEK (http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=bca&id=news/FANS033.xml)