Kenya Airways Pilots to Use Electronically Generated Navigation Charts

African airline Kenya Airways says it will use electronically generated navigation charts developed by Lufthansa Systems for all of its flight operations.

Lufthansa Systems’ Lido Route Manual is part of a new generation of navigation support product that generates route planning data, including detailed airport charts to pilots and flight planners, from a database that contains geographic and aeronautical information from all over the world.

Kenya Airways pilots will use Lufthansa Systems’ Flight Information Viewer to access their necessary charts while accomplishing their preflight briefing and planning and download them for printing.  The charts can also be loaded onto laptop computers and carried onboard the aircraft.  The system’s advantage comes from having the most up-to-date chart information with the least material, weight and logistical cost.  Of course precautions needed to be taken to ensure adequate chart coverage is available for all possible in-flight contingencies and necessary redundancy.

Lufthansa Systems’ says the system gives pilots and dispatchers all flight-relevant navigation data, but enables a number of advantages, such as topographical scalability to depict present information on mountain heights, the courses of rivers and other features more accurately.  For example, pilots will have better information about surrounding obstacles, and will be able to more accurately calculate the time needed to ensure adequate climb performance from mountain airports, according to Lufthansa Systems.  03-07-2004.

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