An Operational Safety and Certification Assessment of a TASAR EFB Application

This paper presents an overview of a Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) Electronic Flight Bag application intended to inform the pilot of trajectory improvement opportunities while en route that result in operational benefits. The results of safety analyses and a detailed review of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulatory documents that establish certification and operational approval requirements are presented for TASAR. The safety analyses indicate that TASAR has a likely Failure Effects Classification of “No Effect,” and at most, is no worse than “Minor Effect.” Based on this safety assessment and the detailed review of FAA regulatory documents that determine certification and operational approval requirements, this study concludes that TASAR can be implemented in the flight deck as a Type B software application hosted on a Class 2 Portable Electronic Device (PED) Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). This implementation approach would provide a relatively low-cost path to certification and operational approval for both retrofit and forward fit implementation, while at the same time facilitating the business case for early Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) IN equipage. A preliminary review by FAA certification and operational approvers of the analyses presented here confirmed that the conclusions are appropriate and that TASAR will be considered a Type B application.

• Record URL:
  • http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140003154.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Langley Research Center
  Hampton, VA  United States  23681

  Rockwell Collins, Incorporated

  400 Collins Road
  Cedar Rapids, IA  United States  52404
• Authors:
  • Koczo, Stefan
  • Wing, David
• Conference:
  • 2013 IEEE/AIAA 32nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)
  • Location: Syracuse NY, United States
  • Date: 2013-10-5 to 2013-10-10
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Aviation safety; Decision support systems; Electronic equipment; Evaluation and assessment; Implementation; Regulations; Vehicle trajectories
• Uncontrolled Terms: Electronic flight bags; Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01539405
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 26 2014 2:46PM