Looking for the MH-370: Global Aviation Security
and a Solution Based on
Streaming Real-Time Flight Data
Sy and Leslie Jae Lenell Levine
web page: www.safelander.com
email: sylevine1@sbcglobal.net
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY MAKES IT
VIABLE AND DESIREABLE TO UTILIZE
ONE ONBOARD PILOT
AND A
REMOTELY LOCATED COPILOT
FOR:
 SAFETY
 SECURITY
 RELIABILITY
 COST REDUCTION
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"Emerging Technology Can Increase Safety, Security &
Reliability While Reducing Cost"
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Reduce piloting costs by permitting a single onboard pilot and a remote
copilot (that can safely provide the backup control for a plurality of aircraft).
– A single remote-pilot can concurrently provide the backup for and safely
fly a plurality of airplanes using well known aircraft spacing/separation.
– Utilizes highly-qualified remote-pilot to safely fly an aircraft in congested
air space, via ciphered radio telemetry to the aircraft and air traffic
controllers.
– Permits the remote-pilot/copilot to control/fly/land an operational aircraft
just as if he/she were the onboard pilot.
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Reduce 9/11, Helios (FLT. 522-2005,121 fatality,B-737)/Payne
Stewart(1999,Lear Jet, 5 fatality) Decompression crashes, etc.
– When a plane substantially deviates from its approved flight plans, it is
presently possible to have a remote-pilot/copilot located in a secure, highfidelity, virtual-reality aircraft simulator fly the plane to a safe landing at
a sparsely populated airfield. The cost reduction by eliminating a 9/11
type crash would more than pay for the entire system and its operation
for ten years.
– Planes that deviate onto potentially fatal runways can be stopped.
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 Reduce costly runway expansion programs.
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Provides enhanced tarmac visibility and situation awareness aboard the
aircraft and to the traffic controllers.
Unifies and simplifies air traffic control and pilot displays and makes them
more comprehensive.
Eliminates the present half cup full system where neither the controllers or
the pilots have shared the necessary information to prevent crashes.
Reduces delays and permits higher traffic density on existing runways.
Enhances tarmac safety.
 Reduce aircraft operating costs.
- Decreases fuel utilization.
- Increases aircraft payload (reduced weight).
- Decreases avionics maintenance (less avionics and mechanical interfaces).
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Reduce the costs and problems associated with the recovery and utilization of onboard
flight data via real-time telemetry of the digital flight data.
– Digital flight data is safely stored, in real-time on the ground computer’s memory for
post flight analysis.
– Digital Flight Data recorder aboard the aircraft can provide data redundancy.
– Permits Recorders to be used for automatic checkout of the aircraft prior to takeoff
during a flight, and post flight.
– Gets safety personnel quickly to a crash site for possible triage and the saving of lives.
– Reduces the anguish of crash victims families.
Reduce FOQA costs and its latency period;
– All data is automatically telemetered to the ground in real-time for processing and
distribution. Provides the necessary real-time digital-data to open the door to
knowledge based 4-dimenstional trajectory Air Traffic Management (ATM),
aeronautics and navigation.
– Minimizes scheduled engine maintenance by real-time tracking of engine utilization.
Reduce insurance costs by making the plane and airports safer and securer.
Reduces LRU costs by eliminating TCAS hardware and performing that function in the air
and on the tarmac/ground via software (standard TCAS doesn’t function on the ground and
can’t prevent ground incursions).
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& Reliability While Reducing Cost“ (continued)
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Has many advantages over the current day onboard-only dual pilots
approach, since the remote-pilot/copilot isn’t subject to loss of
oxygen/decompression, extreme G forces, temperature, smoke,
passenger disturbances and terrorists.
– The ground-based cockpit virtual-reality simulator minimizes
problems associated with pilot disorientation, poor visibility,
weather, runway selection and ground incursions, which have
resulted in numerous fatal accidents.
– From a safety standpoint, the remote-pilot/copilot can
communicate directly with flight operations, emergency and
security personnel, ATC/ATM as well as with the aircraft
manufacturer’s design/engineering experts on how best to handle
an aircraft operation problem thereby preventing the loss of life.
Utilizes present state-of-the-art communication security,
communication technology, and data storage to make flying safer,
securer and more economical.
Provides a safety and security technology bridge to the future use of
unmanned cargo aircraft (UCA).
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FIGURE 1.
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OVERVIEW
AIRCRAFT THAT CAN BE
REMOTELY CONTROLLED
GLOBAL SATELLITE TWO WAY
CIPHERED DIGITAL DATA
COMMUNICATION LINK
SIMULATOR
PROCESSOR
ATC/M, WEATHER,
MAP, TERRAIN &
SECURITY DATA
REMOTE COPILOT IN A
SECURE AIRCRAFT
SIMULATOR
(VIRTUAL REALITY COCKPIT)
TWO WAY SECURE GROUND CIPHERED DIGITAL DATA LINK
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FIGURE 2. AVIONICS SYSTEM
GPS/GLONASS
Navigation Satellite
Global Satellite Two-Way
Secure Ciphered Digital
Data Communication Link
GPS/GLONASS
Receiver
Advisory
System
Performance and
Control Sensor Data
Aircraft That Can Be
Remotely Piloted
Acoustic Data
Sensor Multiplexer Transceiver
Video Data
Remote Pilot Electronic Interface (FCU, ILS, AUTOPILOT INTERFACES)
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FIGURE 3. TWO-WAY CIPHERED
DIGITAL DATA & VOICE COMMUNICATION LINK
CGBS
Central Ground-Based
Processing Station
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TABLE 1.
BASIC DATA STORAGE AND RATES
25 MEGA-BAUD AND STORAGE 100 GIGA-BYTE/DAY
Note: In 2014 PCs Have 1 Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of Storage
COM. SATELLITE CAPABILITY/ YEAR
2008
2006
2004
2000
NUMBER FLTS/DAY (GROWTH 2.5%/YR.)
38,896
37,944
35,280
33,600
AVERAGE FLIGHT TIME IN MINUTES
95
95
95
95
DFDR DATA RATE IN WORDS/SEC/AIRCRAFT
128
128
128
64
DFDR DATA WORD LENGTH IN BITS
12
12
12
12
1,536
1,536
1,536
768
12.288
12.288
12.288
12.288
DFDR DATA RATE (BITS/SEC/AIRCRAFT)
TOTAL DATA RATE FOR ALL OPERATIONAL
AIRCRAFT (NOTE: LESS THAN 8000 AIRCRAFT IN
OPERATION – SKY OR TARMACK) IN MEGA-BAUD
USING 2X (SHANNON) MULTIPLICATION YIELDS
THE TOTAL DATA RATE IN MEGA-BAUD
25
25
25
25
DAILY STORAGE FOR ALL AIRCRAFT EASILY FITS
ON A SINGLE PC DISC. IN GIGA-BYTES
100
100
100
100
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FIGURE 4.
CENTRAL GROUND-BASED PROCESSING STATION (CGBS)
Aircraft
Warnings and
Cautions
Aircraft
Simulation
Antenna Control & RF
and UHF Interface
DISPLAY &
CONTROL
(Cipher, Anti-Jam &
Anti-spoof Controller)
Data
Storage
GROUND BASED
Processor
ENHANCED SAFE
AND SECURE
“BLACK BOX”DATA
REMOTE PILOT
SECURE
ATC Module
AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR
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Aircraft
Manufacturers
Communication
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FIGURE 5.
GROUND-BASED
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Processor
Air Carriers and
Aircraft
Manufacturers
Communication
Module
ATC/M
Module
1
1
TRACON
ATC/M
N
En - route
ATC/M
Map
Database
Topographic
Database
Weather
Database
N
1
Air
Carrier&Aircraft
and Aircraft
Air Carrier
Manufacturer
Facility
Manufacturer Facility
Emergency &
Maintenance
Warnings/ Cautions
SAFELANDER
(REMOTE PILOT CAPABILITY)
SECURE AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR
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FIGURE 6.
GENERIC REPRSENTATION OF THE 583
FATALITY TENERIFE CRASH & OTHERS
TRANSLATOR
DOWN
Note: The 583 fatality Tenerife
crash was head on. This pictorial
is a generic representation and
shows aircraft orthogonal on the
runway.
UP
LANDING GEAR
--
LANDING GEAR DOWN- BRAKE
ON
PROJECTION
AIRCRAFT
FUSELAGE
ENGINE
BRAKE
COLOR CODE TRANSLATOR
GREEN
RED
BLUE
PLANE MOVING
HIGH THRUST
------
STOPPED
OFF
ON
------LOW
-------
COLLISION
TRAJECTORY
ESTIMATED
COLLISION POINT
SAFELANDER PROVIDES AUTOMATED COLLISION AVOIDANCE
ALERTS ATC/M & CAS ENHANCED CAPABILITY DISPLAY
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FIGURE 7.
TENERIFE, ET AL., NO MORE
TRANSLATOR
DOWN
LANDING GEAR
Note: The 583 fatality Tenerife
crash was head on. This pictorial
is a generic representation and
shows aircraft orthogonal on the
runway.
UP
--
LANDING GEAR DOWN- BRAKE ON
AIRCRAFT
FUSELAGE
ENGINE
BRAKE
COLOR CODE TRANSLATOR
GREEN
RED
BLUE
PLANE MOVING
HIGH THRUST
------
STOPPED
OFF
ON
PROJECTION
SAFE TRAJECTORY
------LOW
-------
SAFELANDER PROVIDES A SAFE TRAJECTORY DISPLAY ATC/M &
CAS ENHANCED CAPABILITY
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FIGURE 8.
FATAL TARMAC CRASHES ARE SIMPLY
UNNECESSARY AND ARE PREVENTABE
A FATAL CRASH IN THE GROUND INCURSION FAMILY IS THE 79
FATALITY 10/31/00 SINGAPORE AIRLINE’S FLIGHT 006
CLEARED FOR RUNWAY 05L
FATAL
RUNWAY 05R TAKEN
The 21st Century Aviation System controller and the pilot would have full visibility display of the
plane going onto the wrong hazardous runway way long before the fatal accident occurred. The
controller would then provide manual and automatic alerts to the pilot of the problem. These alerts
would have probably prevented the needless loss of lives. If these alerts to the pilot failed, the
controller would shut the plane down to prevent the fatal accident.
The system, not the pilot’s error, killed these passengers.
We have allowed ignorance and a dark age autopsy mode to solely exist.
Most errors or problems need not result in fatal accidents.
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FIGURE 8-A.
Comair Flight 5191 Fatal Crash On Aug. 27, 2006
Killing 49 People (First Officer James Polehinke Was The Sole Survivor)
Flt 5191 should have gone
down the 7003 foot
Runway 22
SAFELANDER would have
prevented this crash by
displaying to the pilot in
real-time the safe trajectory
Flt 5191 erroneously went
down the 3500 foot
Runway 26
This is a recurring tarmac crash that
was readily preventable. It was due to
a fatal flaw in the traffic control shared
information system and not pilot error.
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FIGURE 9.
SAFELANDER CAS DISPLAY
PROJECTED COLLISION
TRAJECTORY BASED ON
AIRCRAFT TRACK
NOTE: ONE LANDING
GEAR IS DOWN
FLASHING
PROBLEM ICONS
LANDING GEAR
VECTORS
15 MINUTES OF FUEL
REMAINING
• VELOCITIES ( Vn,Ve, Vh)
• PRESENT POSITIONS
• PROJECTED POSITIONS
PROJECTION
TRAJECTORIES
SAFE
TRANSLATOR
DOWN
LANDING GEAR
UP
COLLISION
--
ESTIMATED
COLLISION POINT
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FIGURE 10. SAFELANDER PROVIDES AN AIRCRAFT
DATA SUPERHIGHWAY (SIMILAR TO THE INTERNET)
THAT RESPECTS AN AIR CARRIER’S PRIVILEGED DATA
LEO DATA LINK SAT
GPS SAT
AC1/P1
AC2/P1
AC# = AIR CARRIER (1,2,...)
P# = PLANE (1,2,...)
ONLY AC1 DATA
P1
P2
A B
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CGBS
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CIPHERED DATA
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P2
C
D
FIGURE 11.
CHRONOLOGY OF SATELLITE PER FLIGHT COMMUNICATION COSTS
AVERAGE $ COST PER PLANE PER AVERAGE FLIGHT
(AVG. FLT. TIME = 95 MIN.)
1000.00
800.00
600.00
400.00
$cost/plane/avg.flt.
200.00
2008 ESTIMATE $9.1/FLT.
0.00
1990 1992 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
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TABLE 2. WORLDWIDE AIR CARRIER FATALITIES AND FATAL ACCIDENTS
THE YEARS 1987 THROUGH 1996 (NOTE: DOESN’T INCLUDE 3000 DEATHS IN 9/11/2001)
FATAL ACCIDENT TYPE/QTY
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)
- CFIT Only On Approach
Loss of Control In Flight
In Flight Fire
Sabatage
Mid-air Collision
Hijack
Ice and/or Snow
Landing
Windshear
Fuel Exhaustion
Other Unknown
Runway Incursion
Rejected Take Off (RTO)
TOTAL FATALITIES
% REDUCTION IN FATALITIES
FATAL ACCIDENT TYPE/QTY
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)
Loss of Control In Flight
In Flight Fire
Sabatage
Mid-air Collision
Hijack
Ice and/or Snow
Landing
Windshear
Fuel Exhaustion
Other Unknown
Runway Incursion
Rejected Take Off (RTO)
TOTAL FATALITIES
% REDUCTION FATAL ACCIDENTS
RAFT
RAFT
RAFT
Total
Total
US Operators US Operators Total
Total
US Operators
Fatalities
%Fatalities Fatalities
%Fatalities
Fatalities
%Fatalities Fatalities
2396
32.01%
312
19.68%
479
17.04%
62
957
12.79%
0.00%
191
6.81%
0
2228
29.77%
482
30.41%
1114
39.62%
96
760
10.15%
340
21.45%
152
5.41%
68
607
8.11%
254
16.03%
546
19.43%
229
506
6.76%
0
0.00%
101
3.60%
0
306
4.09%
38
2.40%
275
9.79%
34
162
2.16%
57
3.60%
32
1.15%
11
128
1.71%
3
0.19%
26
0.91%
1
119
1.59%
37
2.33%
36
1.27%
11
113
1.51%
0
0.00%
23
0.80%
0
111
1.48%
17
1.07%
22
0.79%
3
45
0.60%
45
2.84%
5
0.16%
5
3
0.04%
0
0.00%
1
0.02%
0
7484
100%
1585
Fatal
% Fatal
US Fatal
Accidents Accidents
Accidents
36
26.47%
38
27.94%
4
2.94%
5
3.68%
2
1.47%
8
5.88%
5
3.68%
9
6.62%
3
2.21%
7
5.15%
14
10.29%
4
2.94%
1
0.74%
136
100%
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11
2
1
0
1
3
1
1
0
6
4
0
34
100%
2812
62%
100%
521
67%
RAFT
RAFT
RAFT
US % Fatal
Fatal
% Fatal
US Fatal
Accidents
Accidents Accidents
Accidents
11.76%
7
15.32%
32.35%
19
40.43%
5.88%
1
1.70%
2.94%
5
9.57%
0.00%
0
0.00%
2.94%
7
15.32%
8.82%
1
2.13%
2.94%
2
3.83%
2.94%
1
1.91%
0.00%
1
2.98%
17.65%
3
5.96%
11.76%
0
0.00%
0.00%
0
0.00%
100%
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65%
100%
1
2
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
8
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INCLUDES ALL 9/11 FATALITIES
Average = 4.02
Median = 1.89
20.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
0.00
Average = 1.73
Median = 1.89
19
92
19
94
19
96
19
98
20
00
20
02
20
04
20
06
FATALITIES
3 YR. ENSEMBLE SLIDING AVERAGE
FATALITIES PER 100 MILLION MILES
YEARS
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WITHOUT SAFELANDER IT WILL RECUR
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
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WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY
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Table 3.
Back-up Material 9/11/2001
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Notice that the departure and crash times would have permitted a single remote
pilot in a ground-based simulator to take real-time control of each aircraft and
sequentially land them at sparsely populated landing sites:
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On September 11, 2001 the following occurred:
AIRCRAFT_
CAR.
FLT
DEPARTURE
BOEING 767
BOEING 767
BOEING 757
BOEING 757
AAL
UAL
AAL
UAL
11
175
77
93
7:59 AM
7:58 AM
8:10 AM
8:44 AM
CRASH
SITE
8:46 AM
WTC
9:03 AM
WTC
9:43 AM PENTAGON
10:10 AM
PA.
FATALITIES
92
65
64
44
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A total of 265 died aboard aircraft and about 2700 died on the ground.
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The cost of the disaster was estimated at over 10 billion dollars which is more than
five times the estimated 2 billion dollars required to make SAFELANDER
operational.
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As bad as 9/11 was, the terrorists could have inflicted much worse damage by
using the aircraft as a guided bombs and flown/crashed into some nuclear plants.
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RAFT sends the digital flight data and cockpit voice information to the
ground in real-time for safe storage, timely retrieval to enhance safety,
security, reliability and cost reduction applications (Eliminates The
AirFrance, Airbus A330, Flight 447, Category Recorder Problems)
GPS/GLONASS
Navigation Satellite
Global Satellite Two-Way
Secure Ciphered Digital
Data Communication Link
GPS/GLONASS
Receiver
Advisory
System
Performance and
Control Sensor Data
Acoustic Data
Sensor Multiplexer Transceiver
Aircraft Black Boxes Only For Redundancy
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Aircraft’s Flight Data Safely Stored On Ground
and Available For Real-Time Utilization
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SAFELANDER PREVENTS 9/11 RECURRENCE
Without It We Depend On Luck
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On October 21, 2009 Northwest, Airbus A320, Flight 188, flew past its
destination with no FAA communication for an hour and 18 minutes.
(Flt between San Diego, CA to Minneapolis, MN)
In all that time no fighter plane took off to intercept Flight 188. This period
is longer than either AAL Flight 11 or UAL Flight 175 needed to take-off
and crash into the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
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March 8, 2014, 0041: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departs from
Kuala Lumpur International Airport and is due to land in Beijing at
0630 the same day. On board the Boeing 777-200ER are 227
passengers and 12 crew.
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The scandal is that, as of May/27/2014 and extensive/expensive
searches, no one knows where the plane is or what caused the tragedy.
The critical flight data was locked up in the DFDR recorder aboard
the plane and never effectively data streamed to the ground for safe
retrievable storage and possible used in real-time for crash avoidance.
The communication system on commercial carrier aircraft is a low
bandwidth technically obsolete system that wouldn’t be tolerated by
the military for UAVs/RPVs (drones).
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In Conclusion
"Emerging Technology Can Increase Safety, Security &
Reliability While Reducing Cost"
Increases:
 Aircraft payload and fuel economy by reducing aircraft
weight and avionics; (eg: does TCAS function better in
the air & adds that function on the ground without
having the present TCAS hardware on planes)
 Homeland security of the public and its edifices;
– Prevents the recurrence of 9/11 type disasters;
– Prevents unauthorized aircraft from flying into
restricted airspace and their potential destruction;
 Airport efficiency, utilization and automation by
automatically providing all of the data necessary for
enhanced safe visibility;
– Through-put (the number of daily takeoffs and
landings an airport; can safely accommodate)
– Prevents ground incursions.
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In Conclusion (continued)
"Emerging Technology Can Increase Safety, Security
& Reliability While Reducing Cost"
Increases (Continued):
 Situation awareness to the pilot/s and controllers using
simple unified real-time displays that show all of the
necessary data required for aircraft safety;
 ADS-B utility and economical justification;
 The real-time digital-data required for safe and secure 4dimensional ATC/M and free-flight;
 Safety of flight;
– Prevents decompression disasters, hijacking, rogue pilot
and pilot error crashes;
– Allows for the use of simulations and expert systems to
prevent aircraft problems from turning into fatal
crashes;
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In Conclusion (continued)
"Emerging Technology Revolutionizing Aircraft
Safety, Security, Reliability & Cost Reduction "
Decreases:
 The cost of flying;
 The need for expensive runway expansion programs;
 Aircraft crashes;
 Hijacking;
 The number of aircraft that fly unauthorized into
restricted airspace;
 Aircraft weight;
 Piloting and maintenance personnel costs;
 Aircraft avionics costs;
 Aircraft purchase costs;
 Insurance costs;
 The need to recover flight data recorders;
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In Conclusion (continued)
"Emerging Technology Can Increase Safety, Security
& Reliability While Reducing Cost"
Decreases (Continued):
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The time and money spent on flight recorder recovery and recorder
maintenance (sometimes the recorder isn’t recovered or has problems
in the data it is supposed to record);
Tthe time to get to a crash site for possible triage and the saving of lives
FOQA costs and its latency period;
– All data is automatically telemetered to the ground in real-time for
processing and distribution;
The number of and ambiguity of avionics and ATC/M displays;
– Position, heading, attitude, breaking status, engine status, landing
gear status, fuel remaining, etc. are now available & clearly
displayed;
Voice communication bandwidth and the speech comprehension
ambiguities that have led to crashes;
– Provides a good portion of the safety related data automatically in
Usable display and alert forms;
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In Conclusion (continued)
"Emerging Technology Can Increase Safety, Security
& Reliability While Reducing Cost"
Decreases (Continued):
 costly runway expansion programs by providing
enhanced tarmac visibility;
 flight delays by safely decreasing aircraft separation;
 aircraft fuel cost per pound of payload by eliminating
items unrelated to payload;
 the maintenance costs for aircraft avionics and
mechanical systems by having less of them;
 aircraft purchase costs by eliminating items unrelated
to payload; and
 insurance costs and liability claims.
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Some References & URL’s
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Safelander (see http://www.safelander.com for China Patent (CN101093617 B) and Dutch Magazine Article
– The Remote Aircraft Flight Recorder and Advisory Telemetry System, RAFT (Patented),
And It's Ability to Reduce fatal Air Accidents By 78%
While Enhancing Air Space Capacity, Operational Efficiency and Aircraft Security
– http://www.ntsb.gov/events/symp_rec/proceedings/authors/levine.pdft
New Statistics Show Need To Improve Air Safety Record
– http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_47_13/ai_57788793
US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (PATENT NUMBER SEARCH):
– http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm
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“Safelander”
7,099,752
Lenell & Levine August 29, 2006
 “Remote, aircraft, global, paperless maintenance system”
5,974,349
Levine
October 26, 1999
 “Remote aircraft flight recorder and advisory system”
5,890,079
Levine
March 30, 1999
AIEE/IEEE/SAE Digital Avionics Conference (DASC) Nov. 1998 “The Remote Flight Recorder …” *
– htpp://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/5955/15955/00739808.pdf?arnumber=739808
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AIEE/IEEE/SAE Digital Avionics Conference (DASC) Oct. 2007 “An Onboard Pilot & Remote …” *
– htpp://www.ieeexplore.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4391923
Advanced Aerospace Manufacturing Conference April 23-24, 2009
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“Emerging Technology Enhances Aviation Safety, Security While Providing Cost Reduction”
NOTE: * Both DASC papers won the best session paper awards.
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“Thanks to commercial aircraft I got
over my fear of flying.”
Lucky Flight 777
Check In
“Although you know that it’s still
twice as safe to be an astronaut”
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"Emerging Technology Revolutionizing
Aircraft Safety, Security, Reliability & Cost
Reduction /The New Paradigm "
 CONCLUDING REMARKS
 QUESTIONS AND OPEN
DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES &
PRESENTATION
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