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What is Foresight™ Uplink?
In early April 2022, we released a handful of features to your Flight Tracking portal along with a new collaboration feature between ARINCDirect data link capability and Foresight from FlightAware. ARINCDirect data link customers can now engage a new feature, Foresight Uplink, while en route to receive the Foresight predicted ETA. This feature is designed to provide the crew en route with better insights into the impacts on an arrival time that the FMS-generated ETA may not take into consideration.
What is FlightAware Foresight™?
FlightAware Foresight is a predictive technology that improves operator efficiency by decreasing preventable delays and increasing on-time performance. Foresight predictions are based on a statistical analysis of flight tracks both in the air and on the ground to estimate the impact on your flight. It identifies key factors of impact in real-time and as such, can be engaged multiple times over a single flight, improving as it continues to add intel to support its machine learning.
Utilizing Foresight™ Uplink
From the flight management system, or FMS, en route pilots simply send a request with the code ‘ETAFA.’ This is a similar process to how you may request ‘D-ATIS,’ in that no additional address or message content is necessary. Simply type in ETAFA in either the To: or Address: or Subject: fields (keep in mind that the field name is CMU-dependent) of your FMS compose message feature. ARINCDirect data link will recognize the requested code and engage FlightAware to send along the ETA prediction back up to the aircraft only.
Pilots can continue to request the ETAFA multiple times throughout a flight to update the ETA information. As this is a feature-driven by machine learning over the time of the flight, the estimation will continue to improve. Try it out on your next flight and let us know what you think.
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