PLANET-2: PROVIDING IN-FLIGHT WEATHER SERVICES AND OBSERVATIONS TO AND FROM BUSINESS AND REGIONAL AIRCRAFT

Abstract

Near-real-time in-flight weather services for business and regional aviation are nowadays quite well developed in USA, but still very limited in Europe due to the lack of equivalent infrastructure and service offer. The operators of the business and regional aviation in Europe would strongly benefit from in-flight weather forecasting and trajectory tracking in order to fly safely and to optimise the trajectory. On the other hand, weather agencies would greatly benefit from weather observations provided by regional and business aviation (e.g. temperature and wind speed data collected by the aircraft sensors, nowadays delivered only by commercial airlines in the framework of AMDAR) as they would drastically increase geographical coverage and number of measurement thanks to different routes w.r.t. commercial airlines.