CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY Emirates works with Honeywell to reduce risk of runway incursions and excursions

Simple software upgrades combat one of aviation’s most serious safety concerns

Overview These costs stem from casualties, injuries, hull Runway incursions and excursions are a major losses, aircraft inspections, repairs, lost capacity QUICK FACTS cause of concern for the aviation industry. Emirates and closed runways or airports. Bad publicity and Honeywell worked hand-in-hand to develop increases the damage. Honeywell solution SmartLanding®/SmartRunway® two new solutions that are designed to reduce the “At Emirates we were thinking about areas where risk of these dangerous and expensive incidents. we could be vulnerable as an airline and about Customer results advanced safety. One of them was runway l Background Reduces risk of runway incursions and incursion, mainly at the busy airport here at excursions, resulting in improved safety and Wholly owned by the Government of Dubai, Emirates Dubai,” said Capt Alan Stealey, divisional senior cost avoidance Airline has grown from modest beginnings to become vice president, flight operations, at Emirates. l the largest airline in the Middle East and a globally Systems can be used at all Emirates’ “Runway incursions are still a significant cause of worldwide destinations and need no input influential travel and tourism conglomerate. accidents and incidents worldwide and it’s said from the ground On October 25, 1985 it flew its first routes out of that 85 per cent are caused by lack of situational l Training is minimal because these are Dubai with just two aircraft, a leased Boeing 737 awareness by the pilot.” progressions of existing technology and and an Airbus 300 B4. It now operates over 2,500 Honeywell’s own analysis of incidents over a 12-year implementation is a simple software flights a week to 133 cities in 77 countries across six upgrade that doesn’t require aircraft to be period showed 40 per cent of runway incursions continents. With a fleet of almost 200 aircraft, it is the removed from line service were caused by poor positional awareness and 45 world‘s largest operator of both Airbus A380s and per cent by poor traffic awareness. Boeing 777s and its 2012 order-book stood at more Why Emirates Airline chose Honeywell Already operational in more than 40,000 aircraft, than 230 aircraft worth approximately US$84 billion. l Emirates was able to collaborate with Honeywell’s enhanced ground proximity warning Recently, Emirates carried 34 million passengers and Honeywell and have input into developing system (EGPWS) does much to increase aircraft 1.8 million tonnes of cargo in a single financial year and testing these new safety solutions safety and situational awareness but Emirates and, to keep pace with its demanding schedules, l The airline wanted to work with a wanted to go further, particularly for approach, it has one of the highest aircraft utilisation figures in supplier who had tried and trusted aircraft landing and taxiing on the ground. the world. safety technology “We wanted systems that could improve taxiing l Honeywell EGPWS systems, on which Business Need and landing safety, complement existing pilot SmartLanding and SmartRunway are Emirates’ growth relies on a constant commitment safety procedures and were configurable, so they based, were already being used to increase safety and control cost, so runway could be standardised for our entire fleet,” incursions and excursions are major concerns. added Stealey. Customer l Name: Emirates Airline These incidents are among the National “We wanted advisories that would provide l Transportation Safety Board’s top ten safety issues maximum benefits, reducing aircraft insurance Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates and they are estimated to cost the industry more and the costs of hard landings, and that would l Industry: Airline than US$1 billion a year. offer best-in-class safety solutions.” l Website: www.emirates.com “Emirates is a great fan of these systems. We have got a suite of systems from Honeywell which enhance our safe operation.”

Capt Alan Stealey, divisional senior vice president, flight operations, Emirates

Solution alerts to crew members during taxi, takeoff, Training is also easy because the systems Emirates and Honeywell joined forces in the final approach, landing and rollout. Developed are intuitive and logical and simulator development, testing and certification of two to reduce the likelihood of runway incursions, it modifications involve just a simple software new safety solutions, SmartLanding® and interfaces with Honeywell’s worldwide terrain and upgrade. Emirates runs computer-based training SmartRunway®. Both are simple software runway database and adds new graphical alerts and also has a distance learning capability upgrades to EGPWS and SmartRunway is the to the existing aural alerts in RAAS. Its design is for pilots. next generation of Honeywell’s runway awareness also suitable for the future addition of automatic “Perhaps the biggest advantage is that once and advisory system (RAAS). dependant surveillance – broadcast (ADS-B) these systems are installed they work worldwide,” Working hand-in-hand, the companies built a functionality. added Stealey. dedicated certification and implementation team “We want this facility at all airfields that our Benefits that involved flight operations, flight training aircraft may go to, including our destinations “We had great input with Honeywell in the facilities, quality assurance, aircraft maintenance, and our diversion airfields. This could be up to development of these systems and we like design engineering and supply chain. 400 locations and if we were to use moving map them because they are simple progressions SmartLanding and SmartRunway are now in use displays they would be very difficult to keep up which require minimal training and risk involved across Emirates’ fleets of Airbus 330, A340 and to date. in the implementation. They are quick software Boeing 777 aircraft. updates which require no flightdeck changes “The software that is used in the SmartLanding/ SmartLanding helps prevent hard or long landings that could ground aircraft for too long,” said SmartRunway adapts itself to every single airfield by alerting pilots if the aircraft is approaching Stealey. so this is a great saving in terms of cost and also the runway too high, too fast or is not properly a great facility for us as we fly worldwide. They are “Honeywell has a really great suite of systems configured. also built on the tried and trusted EGPWS system here and a principal reason why we like them is that pilots have confidence in. It complements standard operating procedures that they are aircraft-based technology that do (SOPs) and flight operation quality assurance not require any input from the ground. This is “Emirates is a great fan of these systems. We (FOQA) programmes to ensure compliance with beneficial when we operate in and out of airfields have got a suite of systems from Honeywell which stabilised approach criteria. The aircraft should where infrastructure and the serviceability of enhance our safe operation.” be stable at 1,000 feet above the ground; it must ground aids are lacking.” Emirates is now reviewing its SOPs in the light of be stable at 500 feet and must be proceeding on Emirates believes that the oral warnings given by SmartLanding and is likely to bring in a mandated the correct vertical path at the correct speed and SmartLanding and SmartRunway enhance safety. ‘go around’ for any approaches that do not meet properly configured. Rather than watching a moving map within the its criteria. It is also working with Honeywell on SmartRunway improves situational awareness flightdeck, pilots can listen to alerts but still look future developments that will go even further to by providing positional advisories and graphical around as they taxi. ensure flight safety.

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