US avionics manufacturer Honeywell has unveiled its "WorldNav" concept which it describes as the "world's first total- system solution to the challenges of free flight".
The WorldNav combines the company's expertise in five key areas: communications, precision navigation, surveillance, precision approach and ground-vehicle management. The system is aimed at civil and military requirements.
The concept builds principally on the company's satellite communications and datalink experience in communications, flight-management and global-positioning system (GPS) work in precision navigation. Honeywell's expertise in traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system and automatic dependent surveillance for wide-area coverage is also built on, as its use of joint work with Pelorus in satellite-landing systems and the GPS for precision approach and its TracLink development for ground-vehicle management.
Source: Flight International