Garmin® demonstrates datalink weather broadcast for pilots in Germany
April 03 2019 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Offers datalink weather for appropriately
equipped aircraft flying in and around Friedrichshafen
Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd.
(NASDAQ: GRMN), today announced the availability of datalink
weather broadcast through a technology demonstration in
Friedrichshafen, Germany (EDNY). Using a ground-based Universal
Access Transceiver (UAT) that is comprised of Garmin hardware at
the EDNY airport, weather information is broadcast and received by
aircraft equipped with select Garmin ADS-B In products and
displayed on Garmin avionics and portables. For appropriately
equipped aircraft, there is no additional cost to receive weather
information during this evaluation period, which is expected to end
in Q4 of 2019.
“Based on the success of datalink weather in the United States,
we are excited to demonstrate affordable datalink weather in
Germany and look forward to evaluating the feasibility of this
technology in Europe,” said Carl Wolf, vice president of
aviation sales and marketing. “We would like to extend our
appreciation to the German licensing agencies, as well as airplus
maintenance for hosting the station and embracing this technology
as we collectively aim to provide pilots with better tools that can
aid and improve in-flight decision-making.”
Today, pilots operating within the vicinity of the
Friedrichshafen airport with compatible ADS-B In receivers have
access to new datalink weather products in Europe. Weather products
accessible through this ground station include radar imagery,
METARs, TAFs, lightning, icing and winds aloft. Pilots can expect
to receive weather up to 50 nautical miles away from the ground
station located at EDNY and weather products will display within a
250 nautical mile coverage area. Reception is also dependent upon
line of sight. Through this, Garmin aims to demonstrate the
advantages of widely available datalink weather for aircraft
operators in Europe.
“AOPA Germany welcomes Garmin’s efforts in Europe. It is obvious
that safety in General Aviation should increase if pilots have
access to weather information in their cockpits. We know that it
has been a significant effort to work in cooperation with the
authorities to make the frequencies available, and Garmin has done
a great job of explaining the safety case behind it and has
succeeded,” said Dr. Michael Erb, senior vice president, AOPA
Europe. “We are convinced that the results of the datalink weather
demonstration will be positive and that it can serve as a good
justification for bringing in-flight weather, as well as traffic
and AIS information, into all GA cockpits in Europe.”
Currently, the system architecture leverages the US-defined
FIS-B datalink using UAT technology. Garmin has flight tested the
reception of these weather products in a Cessna 182 equipped with a
GTX™ 345 ADS-B transponder, GTN™ 650/750 navigators, G500 TXi
flight display, aera® 660/795/796 GPS portables, the GDL® 50
portable ADS-B receiver and the Garmin Pilot™ app on Apple mobile
devices. Garmin expects compatibility with additional UAT-based
receivers and displays.
These datalink weather products are available immediately for
pilots operating in the vicinity of the Friedrichshafen airport in
Germany. Pilots who fly into AERO Friedrichshafen in Germany (April
10-13, 2019) and use the new datalink weather products are
encouraged to provide feedback at the Garmin exhibit (Hall A6).
Pilots can also submit feedback via this website:
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/UATfeedback/. Garmin is also
hosting a press conference at AERO Friedrichshafen on Thursday,
April 11th at 16:00 local in Conference Center West, Room
Schweiz. For additional information regarding Garmin datalink
products, visit www.garmin.com/aviation.
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