EFB Systems for Military Aircraft
EFBs give pilots mobile access to real-time data and critical mission-related information with the swipe of a finger while also automating manual processes. Switching from paper-based manuals and navigation charts to EFBs improves situational awareness, mission effectiveness and efficiency, reduces fuel and operations costs, and equips military aircraft for future mandated FAA requirements.
Collins Aerospace EFBs offer enhanced functionality, NIST-certified encryption, broad capabilities and open architecture. They come complete with hardware, customizable software and support services that allow flight crews and maintenance personnel to perform critical ground and in-flight data management tasks electronically.
Features & benefits
- Encrypted, secure USB and/or Bluetooth® connectivity to iOS® or Windows® tablets via the Tablet Interface Module (TIM®)
- 1553 bus capability
- Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS)-compliant lighting components
- Improved aircraft data collection and access
- Own-ship positioning for obstacle avoidance
- Tail-specific discrepancy log
- Loadmaster apps
- Faster response time for maintenance discrepancies
- Flight performance tracking for fuel optimization
- PHM performance analytics recording
Details
Increased connectivity within the aircraft (pilot-to-pilot and pilot-to loadmaster / other aircrew cross-talk / screen sharing) and outside the aircraft through messaging via SATCOM or datalink, depending on your preference or automated business rules.
Applications
Flight operations
- Integration potential with maintenance control
- Reduced paper document maintenance with improved revision control
- Improved aircraft data collection and access
- Faster response time for maintenance discrepancies
Ground operations
- Tail-specific discrepancy log
- Loadmaster apps
- Own-ship positioning for obstacle avoidance
Maintenance
- Electronic record keeping
- Digital data entry and retrieval
- Reduced administration
- Faster response time for maintenance discrepancies
In-flight
- Increased situational awareness
- Faster response time to mission changes
- Real-time flight performance and discrepancy tracking
- Permits continuous in-flight full recharging of tablet
- Provides real-time avionics data visibility onto each tablet
- Two-way, secure digital communication between the aircraft and other tablet EFB users
- Compatibility with a wide range of tablets (iOS® and Windows®)
