ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — A new flight data delivery  solution for airlines developed jointly by teams at Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary  Jeppesen and Boeing  Information Services slashes the time required to  deliver and load vital flight data to an airplane. Application Data Enhanced  Loading (ADEL) is a solution that reduces overall workload, network bandwidth  requirements and costs associated with airline data operations. ADEL supports  Boeing and Jeppesen Electronic Flight Bags

“In a challenging business environment where airlines are looking to reduce  costs and workload wherever possible, the Application Data Enhanced Loading  solution provides an important competitive advantage,” said Tim Huegel,  director, Jeppesen Aviation Portfolio Management. “About ten percent of terminal  chart data is changed per revision cycle, meaning this optimized system for  delivering flight data eliminates a large amount of data transmittal and  increases operational efficiency for airlines.”

ADEL enhances the delivery of frequently changing airport terminal charting  information, Windows-based airport moving maps, electronic document browser  (EDB) and onboard performance tool (OPT) data associated with electronic flight  bag (EFB) use in the flight deck.

Previously, airlines were required to dispatch a maintenance technician to  load a digital file of up to 150 megabytes of updated EFB data to each airplane  on a weekly basis. Now, only the “delta set,” or the EFB data that has been  changed, is required for wireless transmission, and the update can be activated  by flight crew. With ADEL, what would take technicians up to an hour to perform  can now be done by a flight crew in less than one minute.

Korean Air is the first commercial aviation operator to integrate the  Application Data Enhanced Loading solution to enhance its EFB-related data  operations.

The ADEL solution incorporates Jeppesen’s industry-leading data delivery  management (DDM) system and integrates other Boeing technology to vastly improve  the delivery and loading of EFB data to the airplane.

“This is another step in Boeing’s drive to enable the Digital Airline,” said  John Maggiore, Director of Airline Performance Management in Boeing Commercial  Aviation Services’ Information Services business. “Enabling airlines to manage  the distribution of digital data on their fleets more efficiently and at lower  cost via ADEL will give our customers a competitive edge.”

Source: Boeing
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