Thales Sees Applications for Next Generation PureFlyt FMS on Military Air Transport Planes

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TOULOUSE, France – Thales provided details about its next generation flight managementsystem (FMS), PureFlyt, which executives and avionics engineers here at its avionicsheadquarters explained will be the aviation industry’s first FMS with open world connectivityembedded in its architecture and functionality.Expected to enter into service by 2024, Thales’ avionics engineering team first starteddesigning PureFlyt in 2015 and has already amassed 100 million actual flight hours using a newmachine learning approach to testing its capabilities with real flight data, waypoints andairports. Peter Hitchcock, vice president of commercial avionics for Thales, told journalistsPureFlyt will not only be capable of 4D trajectory operations adding time to the three traditionalspatial dimensions used for aircraft positioning updates, but will also be the first FMS capable of5D trajectory, constantly proposing an optimal flight path for pilots to follow by accounting forchanges in an aircraft’s weight as it burns fuel along a given route.