Add TAWS without adding an LRU if the TCAS 2000 is already part of your safety avionics package. This solution will provide aircraft operators with lower cost of ownership without having to allow for additional space and weight.
The TCAS 2000 is unchanged from the existing ARINC-735A characteristic in terms of operational characteristics and I/O interfaces. The TAWS function uses connector pins that are currently unused by the TCAS.
Simply Safer
The TēCAS™ safety avionics
system combines actual aircraft climb performance-based Terrain Awareness
Warning System (TAWS) capabilities into the TCAS 2000 line-replaceable unit
(LRU). TēCAS is the only TAWS to provide avoidance alerts based on actual
aircraft performance data, virtually eliminating nuisance warnings. Our system
provides avoidance alerts based on the aircraft's actual ability to climb,
not based on standard climb rates and an assumption that all critical functions
are performing properly.
Along with optional Windshear
and GPS, the system provides a powerful combination of functionality. Performance-based
TēCAS can be applied to any air transport, regional, business or military
aircraft to avoid Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT), which gives operators
more time to clear terrain and traffic with an increased margin to maneuver.
TēCAS meets and exceeds all the
terrain safety features required by the TAWS TSO-C151a and Windshear C117a
standards.
Features
The TēCAS terrain and traffic collision avoidance system combines the industry-leading TCAS 2000 with Thales’ 30 years of expertise in high performance terrain-avoidance systems.
Collision Prediction and Alerting mode:
True look-ahead capability thanks to real-time analysis based on predicted aircraft flight path and knowledge of terrain environment.
Advanced and reliable ground hazard warning and caution.
Alert computation according to instantaneous aircraft climb performance.
