Air Arabia selects Thales for 44 new A320s

Air Arabia, based in Sharjah (UAE), has selected Thales to supply an avionics package including Flight Management Systems (FMS), and Traffic, Terrain and Transponder Collision Avoidance System (T3CAS) for its 44 new Airbus A320 aircraft.
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The new aircraft will be delivered with Release 1A, the new software version for the TopFlight FMS certified on the Airbus A320 Family in March 2009. This offers new approach capabilities such as Required Navigation Performance with Authorisation Required capacity - (RNP AR down to RNP 0.1) or GNSS Landing System (GLS) along with functionality on the A320 and A330/A340 families like the FMS Landing System (FLS).

The FMS Landing System is a way to fly non-precision approaches using ILS (Instrument Landing System)-like procedures, enhancing situational awareness and reducing drastically training times and costs due to standardisation of procedures.

The T3CAS product developed by ACSS, a US joint venture between Thales and L3COM, delivers advanced surveillance capabilities to operators. The T3CAS has the operational advantage of being a Traffic Collision Avoidance System with the latest Change 7.1 standard, a predictive Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) based on real aircraft performance and a Mode S transponder compliant to the latest DO260A standard.

It supports all new ADS-B IN functions (ATSA-ITP, ATSA-VSA, ATSA-AIRB) and includes three functions in one single box (TCAS, TAWS and Transponders), offering additional advantages over the existing system in terms of weight, power consumption and antenna drag.

 

 

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