By displaying the own-ship symbol on the airport moving map, enroute modules, and terminal charts, pilots benefit from improved situational awareness.
Lufthansa Systems recently released an iPadOS-based charting solution for pilots called the Lido mPilot 6.1. This new version has improved features like single procedure selection and significantly helps to improve workflows, enhance situational awareness, and increased efficiency in downloading data. With Lido mPilot, pilots benefit from enhanced situational awareness, efficient operations, and access to all necessary navigation charts, documents, and messages on their iPad – anywhere and anytime.
Philipp Barzen, Managing Director FlightNav AG at Lufthansa Systems said, “The Lido Pilot Solutions are designed together with, and specifically for, pilots. We continually strive to improve the user experience of our apps and are excited to share some new features within the Lido mPilot, which make the workflows of pilots more efficient than ever before.”
To increase the safety of missions, the Lido mPilot now also offers the display of an own-ship symbol on terminal charts. By displaying the own-ship symbol on the airport moving map, enroute modules, and terminal charts, pilots benefit from improved situational awareness.
Lufthansa & AIR SUPPORT
AIR SUPPORT partnered with Lufthansa to give their pilots the best experience using PPS CrewBriefing with Lido mPilot. AIR SUPPORT customers can now use the Lido charts by the recent integration of Lido mPilot into their PPS CrewBriefing app for iOS devices. This provides pilots with seamless access to all relevant information required to perform a safe and efficient flight.
The partnership will open new opportunities for both airline and business aviation fleet operators, which will be expanded in the near future.
Peter Gravesen, Chief Commercial Officer at AIR SUPPORT said, “This is the first step in our ambition to expand our cooperation with Lufthansa Systems, and it will add more freedom for our customers to select the best product.”
Philipp Barzen, Managing Director FlightNav AG at Lufthansa Systems said, “AIR SUPPORT has been using Lido Sky Data for many years now for their flight planning solution, PPS, as a reliable source of information that matches customers’ expectations with more than 25,000 airports covered. We are pleased to develop the cooperation further between AIR SUPPORT and Lufthansa Systems.”
AIR SUPPORT provides the PPS Flight Planning system as well as Flight Watch, the newly developed flight tracking system for aviation professionals. AIR SUPPORT serves more than 450 companies, mainly business aviation, service providers as well as airlines.
Lufthansa & KLM
The new version of Lido mPilot comes with the single procedure selection feature, which also enables charts to display in split view. KLM has already successfully tested Lido mPilot 6.1 in practice.
Maarten Koudijs, Air Traffic Management, Digitizing & Navigation at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said, “For us at KLM, the evolution of this product has benefited us greatly, due to the ability to select a single procedure for take-off and landing by runway and type. It not only improves the process of setting up the flight but also significantly reduces the time to do so. The readability of the chart is enhanced, as it displays only the particular procedure and its pertinent information. Moreover, the split view allows the pilot to more easily read the navigational information.”
Weather feature
Lufthansa Systems also introduced new weather features that reduce data consumption by 90 percent. After a flight plan is loaded, the app sends coordinates along the route, building a 500 nautical miles radius to the weather server. The corridor extends on both sides, left and right, in order to depict only the relevant weather for the flight, so pilots can focus on the most pertinent information based on the corridor.
Easy registration via MDM
Registering Lido mPilot is made easier now when using the new registration option via MDM.
Barry Comerford, Head of Flight Operations Technical & Captain Boeing 737-800 at Jet2 confirms this enhanced feature with their experience “The biggest benefit for us is around the MDM auto-registration, especially because we are in the middle of an iPad and MDM refresh. Previously the DDS process was very onerous for airlines, and now it is almost a non-event.”
In a nutshell, the airline administrator can set up and distribute registration files to pilots, which will pre-fill all the required data on Lido mPilot’s registration page. This simultaneously synchronizes with Lido’s back-end systems to speed up the automatic approval.
mPilot@darkmode
Lufthansa Systems continues to enhance the dark mode colors to improve the functionality of the app in low-light conditions and improve the iPad’s battery consumption. By updating the dark mode colors for terminal charts, which maintain the minimum color contrast ratios, Lufthansa Systems improved the legibility of our charts, reducing eye strain in low-light conditions.
Lufthansa Systems provides customized solutions to airlines to benefit from digitization by providing tactical data for a safe and efficient flight. They also offer best-in-class maps for navigation in the air and at the airport thus paving the way got connectivity above the clouds that goes far beyond entertainment.
