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AIR TRANSPORT ROUTES AVIONICS GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC UPS complies with TCAS rule but pursues ADS-B New cockpit display to correlate information from conventional and ADS-B devices UPS Airlines is to equip its Boeing 757s and 767s with the capability to combine traffic alert and colli sion avoidance system (TCAS) and automatic dependent surveillance- broadcast (ADS-B) information on one display. The move preserves its investment in ADS-B while comply ing with regulations requiring cargo aircraft to be fitted with TCAS. UPS had hoped to certificate ADS-B as an alternative to TCAS, but began installing conventional collision-avoidance systems after the US Federal Aviation Admini stration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking last November which would require cargo operators to install TCAS by October next year. The package carrier will install a new cockpit display in its 100-plus 757s and 767s that will be the first capable of correlating traffic infor mation from both TCAS and ADS- B, says developer UPS Aviation Technologies (UPS-AT). The UPS subsidiary believes the display will make it easier for ADS-B to be retro fitted into passenger as well as cargo aircraft, exploiting the datalink system's capabilities. Initially, the AT20O0 display is certificated for TCAS-only use, but a next-generation processor will become available later this year that can correlate and display TCAS and ADS-B targets. UPS plans to install the new processor on a portion of its fleet, says UPS-AT. Pilots will be able to select a correlated target and see the additional information available via ADS-B, including flight number, aircraft type, heading, future position and closure rate. UPS hopes to exploit the system's additional data and greater range to enable operational capabilities such as arrival spacing, with pilots using ADS-B to monitor aircraft separa tion with air traffic controllers. UPS- AT is also developing the overlay of airport surface traffic on a moving map display to prevent runway incursions. Trials are beginning in which airport surface-movement radar data and ADS-B position reports will be fused and uplinked. OPERATIONS Iraqi Airways clings to life with ageing 727s Iraqi Airways is continuing to oper ate despite United Nations sanctions which have forced it to slash its fleet and limited it to a small domestic network. Director general Mamoun Al Nasseri says operations are "very difficult", with the state-owned operator currently flying four ageing Boeing 727-200$ to two destinations in Iraq, includ ing Basra. Al Nasseri says that Iraqi has a large spares holding to sup port the aircraft in the short term. PROPULSION MHI to acquire stake in PW6000 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is taking a 7.5% risk-sharing stake in the troubled Pratt & Whitney (P&W) PW6000 engine pro gramme. MHI has previously part nered with P&W on the JT8D-200 and PW40O0. The deal gives MHI responsibility for the powerplant's combustion chamber. The PW60O0 was supposed to enter service later this year power ing the Airbus A318, but problems have pushed the in-service date back to at least mid-2005 (Flight International, 30 April - 6 May). P&W's move to offload some of the financial risk follows the defection of several key launch customers to CFMI. A team of MHI engineers has already been dispatched to P&W's East Hartford, Connecticut, head quarters in the USA to start work on the PW6000, the design of which is being heavily revised as a result of performance shortfalls. The US engine manufacturer, meanwhile, has completed tests of the MTU-designed high-pressure compressor proposed as a solution to the PW6000's excessive fuel con sumption, and is "encouraged by the performance". If the compres sor is selected, as expected, the German company will also become a risk-sharing partner. • Iranian private airline Mahan Air has launched passenger and freight flights between Tehran and Kabul. Initially, two services per week are being operated. • Belgian long-haul start-up VG Airlines will begin operations from Brussels to New York Kennedy on 23 May using Airbus A330s. Boston services will start on 30 May with Los Angeles following next month. Virgin Express will feed the airline's services at Brussels. • Having abandoned plans to merge with Virgin Express, SN Brussels Airlines will terminate its commercial relationship with the low-cost carrier in March next year. Meanwhile, SN is to codeshare with Finnair on both carriers' flights between Brussels and Helsinki from early June. SN is also carrying Air Littoral codes on flights to Bordeaux, Lyon. Marseilles, Strasbourg and Toulouse. • Iberia and TAP Air Portugal have launched codeshares on each other's flights between cer tain domestic and European destinations. • Las Vegas- based National Airlines will launch a three-times-daily ser vice from Las Vegas to Seattle and add a fourth daily flight to Dallas/Fort Worth on 23 May. In August National will also restart flights from its Las Vegas hub to Washington National Airport and introduce a daily service to Washington Dulles. It will start a four-times-daily service from Las Vegas to Reno Tahoe International Airport on 3 October. • American Trans Air's affiliate Chicago Express Airlines will start a four-times- daily service between Chicago Midway Airport and Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky on 28 August. It will also start four daily flights between Chicago and the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on 15 August. • Air Canada has started a daily ser vice between Vancouver and Anchorage. • From its 2002 winter schedule, BMI British Midland's East Midlands-based low fare arm Bmibaby will add services to Copenhagen, Lyon and Milan Bergamo. Flights to Murcia and Ibiza will be dropped. www.flightinternational.com FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 21-27 MAY 2002 13
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