Expert Dialogue on Real-time Monitoring of Flight Data
Session 5: Views of Airlines and Pilots
Lufthansa Airlines
2014-05-27
Dr. Frank Leipold
Lufthansa Airlines
IT Development Flight Operations
Motivation
We need reliable global real-time
position reporting for aircraft!
The question is how?
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Principles
Position Reporting
Global Centralized
Data Storage
New Equipment
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Wireless FDR & CVR
Data Storage
In Airlines
Performance Increase
& Software Updates
Increase Tracking and Positioning Performance
Enhanced Technologies and Equipment
for new Aircraft
Increased
Positioning
Performance
Software Update for Existing Aircraft
Such as ACARS Position Reports via Satellite
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Data Management
Who controls
the data?
Security mechanism?
Encryption, …
Data
Management
Prevent
compromise by
fake messages
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Prevent data
misuse from
terrorist attacks
Prevent data
misuse from
economic analysis
of airlines
Prevent
compromise by
denial of service
attack
Todays Tracking Mechanism used by Lufthansa
▪ Aircraft tracking system in place for Mission Support since December 2013
Tracking for Long-range Flights
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Automatic periodic transmissions
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Interval depends on flight phase
•
Custom AOC message format
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Activate/deactivate from ground
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Encrypted messages
▪ Lufthansa additionally receives and stores ATC messages sent from the aircraft for
CPDLC and ADS-C
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GADCom
▪ New datalink ground system by Lufthansa operational since October 2013
▪ Unified message broker system
▪ Directly interfacing with many ground systems
▪ Modern interface design, mostly based
on Web-Services
▪ Highly configurable by the users
▪ Message formats
▪ Business logic
Aircraft
EFB
Protocols
• ACARS
• Direct IP
Avionics
Media
• VHF
• Satellite
• Cellular
• Wired (EFB)
GADCom
▪ Is/will be used by Lufthansa Group airlines
and other airlines
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Interfaces to more than 50
ground systems
Conclusion
The challenge is not the technology!
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Thank You
Dr. Frank Leipold
Project Manager
IT-Development Flight Operations
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Lufthansa German Airlines
60549 Frankfurt am Main
Phone +49 (69) 696 85326
Mobile +49 (151) 4400 3524
E-Mail frank.leipold@dlh.de