Rule-based NOTAM & Weather notification

Today, commercial airline pilots need to consider various sources of information during flight operation. The documentation is both available on paper or within a digital medium. The extensive amount of information is neither prioritized nor filtered, and therefore lead to information overflow. The consideration of all relevant information from the various sources is performed without electronic support and may potentially lead to misinterpretation of the context. It is also challenging to merge and evaluate all delivered information regarding specific phases of flight as well as unforeseen adversarial scenarios. Jeppesen, integrator for world wide aeronautical information and provider for airborne and ground systems such as Electronic Flight Bags (EFB) and dispatch systems, and Technische Universität Braunschweig, with its Institute for Flight Guidance, have jointly developed a rule-based weather and NOTAM notification system. In order to develop a cockpit notification system, a generic data format has been established that copes with all necessary message types used in commercial and general aviation. The paper discusses the rules and definitions required for the implementation of the concepts described above. It presents possible solutions for the integration into the airline cockpit workflow with the following key objectives: • Development of a concept of business rules for the Rule Based NOTAM and Weather Notification System • Connection of real-time NOTAM and weather source data to a data-driven EFB charting application to apply the business rules • Depiction of relevant NOTAM and weather information as notification to the pilots.