POWER OF INNOVATION COMES ALIVE.........As Emirates evaluates innovative winter weather technology
"My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer"-. Mary Barra DUBAI, U.A.E., 28 February 2017 Emirates has started field-testing an innovative decision support technology that allows it to better manage operations, safety and environmental performance in the face of extreme and disruptive winter weather. Working with Vaisala, a market leader in environmental and industrial measurement services based in Finland, Emirates has rolled out testing of the CheckTime decision system for winter weather at Copenhagen and Chicago. CheckTime uses real-time measurements of a number of factors such as temperature, wind and precipitation type from precision weather sensors to accurately estimate the impact of prevailing weather conditions on de- and anti-icing fluids on the aircraft and then communicates the results to pilots via the ACARS system on the aircraft. CheckTime replaces a procedure where pilots manually use a combination of holdover timetab...