TacView Portable Mission Display For C-130 Operations Chuck Praeger Esterline CMC Electronics

TacView Portable Mission Display
For C-130 Operations
Chuck Praeger
Esterline CMC Electronics
Cell: 847-830-5891
[email protected]
TacView: An avionicsgrade, portable smart
display for rapid
implementation of
tactical data link
communications and
streamlined airborne
operations
TacView Advantages
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Autonomous System
NVIS Compatibility
Sunlight readable
Sliding QWERTY Keyboard
Enhanced bezel buttons
Removable mass storage device
for declassification
TacView System
Components
Portable Mission Display (PMD)
…in the cockpit
Expansion Module Unit (EMU)
…in any convenient location
D0-160E / ED-14 Qualified
Expansion Module Unit
Options
• I/O
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4 ARINC 429 Inputs
2 ARINC 429 Outputs
8 Discretes Inputs
4 Discretes Outputs
4 port 10/100 BaseT Ethernet Switch
4 RS-170 Input
1 RS-232
4 RS-422
• DO-160E Qualification
Enhanced EMU
MIL-STD Connector EMU
Application
Flexibility
• Tactical Situation Awareness
Display
– Link 16
– SADL
• PFPS, FalconView mission
planning
• Radar / Targeting Pod Video
Display
Paperless Cockpit
Functionality
• Jeppesen EFB Software
• NGA FLIP Charts
• Check lists
• Electronic Documents
• Performance Management
• Weight and Balance
Why Paperless
Cockpit?
Boxes Everywhere…
Labor Intensive
30
Carts of Trash
Every 56 Days
• 3712 man-hours/year required to maintain paper
• $200-$400K annual cost for Travis AFB
• 16,800 pounds of paper/year consumed
• $78K annual fuel cost to carry paper
Excerpted from:
USAF Electronic
Flight Bag
Symposium
Travis Air Force
Base, CA
Cockpit-9000 TacView
Cockpit-9000 Functionality
• MCDU Repeater
– Flight Engineer / Navigator
– Access to tactical pages
• Tactical Approach, Moving Waypoint, Bull's
eye, Search and Rescue, CARP, HARP and
LEGS
– No access to
• EXEC, acknowledge messages, sensor
selections, flight plans, radio frequencies, etc.
• High speed FMS data loading
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Unclassified TacView
Programs
AFSOC AC-130 Gunships
– Paperless cockpit
– PFPS
• US and Int’l C-130J Block
– PFPS
– Tactical Data Link
• US Navy C-130T
– Paperless cockpit
– PFPS
•Saudi Arabia C-130
• Paperless cockpit
• KC-130J Harvest Hawk
– Targeting
• Air National Guard RTIC
– Tactical Data Link Display
– Paperless Cockpit
• Digital Map
• Weather
• FMS Data Loader
Contacts
Chuck Praeger
Sr. Marketing Manager
Phone: (630) 466-2213
Mobile: (847) 830-5891
[email protected]
André Cléroux
Product Manager
Phone: (514) 748-3036
Mobile: (514) 378-4213
[email protected]
Paul Bishop
TacView Sales
Phone: (630) 466-2127
Mobile: (630) 267-0300
[email protected]