Improvements in the way pilots receive digital information in the cockpit are set to boost airline safety in the next few years by providing as-needed navigation data and realtime alerts of critical airport and airway status. Enhancements under way include optimising electronic charts to aid pilots in processing navigation information as well as digitising and filtering the alerts generated by today's antiquated analogue Notam notice to airmen system, which attempts to inform pilots of issues like runway and taxiway closures, unlit towers near a runway or GPS navigation outages.
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