Terrain collision (CFIT) is by far the largest threat to Air Transport, both in terms of number of accidents and fatalities. According to the latest 'statistical summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents', there were 56 CFIT accidents between 1987 and 2004, causing the loss of 3,631 lives.
Therefore Ground proximity warning systems (GPWS) are mandatory for all passenger aircraft.
State-of the-art on terrain functions gives an overview how current systems support the crew.
FLYSAFE will develop new terrain and obstacle presentations with enhanced terrain situation awareness to be shown to the pilot under conditions to be defined:
| THALES coordinated the second formal review of the FLYSAFE project on 8 and 9 March 2006 at NLR in... |
| On the 1st of February 2005, the FLYSAFE project has started, and SKYSOFT, as one of its active... |
