Based on the findings in the ISAWARE project, the main objectives in ISAWARE II are:

• The introduction of interactive cockpit provisions, specific to surveillance system, that will enable pilots to customise their display presentation and provide the surveillance system with more inputs coming from pilots. Also, interactivity will allow to build non dedicated control panel reducing the number of control panel (switches) required, and so doing reducing the overall cost of the aircraft.
• The adaptation of the ISAWARE reactive into a proactive system providing the crew with view of the threats in "protected" areas in which the crew could intend to fly.
• An Intelligent Crew Support System (ICS) to assist the crews in high workload conditions (approach and landing), in adverse weather and in critical situations, that is to say when flight operations are found most difficult and prone to human error.
• An exocentric Navigation Display presentation that shall greatly enhance the crew vertical awareness in approach and departure phases of flight.
• A Taxi Display, which is integrated with the Navigation Display to support the standard flight procedures.
• Presentation of different types of safety altitudes on the displays upon pilot request.

Furthermore, following the studies done in ISAWARE on workstations, ISAWARE II will address the integration and certification aspects of such a system by developing and experimenting a mock-up based on embedded hardware.

Basic flight simulator of TU Darmstadt

ISAWARE II mock-up will be tested on a basic flight simulator with test pilots to have a first evaluation of the work and to test the various HMI and other system options available. Finally, the mock-up will be installed on a full flight simulator to be evaluated by airline crews.

Full flight simulator at NLR

A possible cockpit arrangement of full flight simulator

By more timely addressing, potential, but severe, conflict situations and strategic guidance to resolve the situations, aircraft operation will shift away from tactical (prone to errors) into strategic aircraft management, leaving more time to cope with complex situations. The new HMI will provide easy-to-understand information aimed at reducing pilot workload (using an exocentric navigation display); ILOS, the Isas LOgic System, will integrate all alerting functionality in a smart way (proactive system). The development of such critical technologies, require and encompass novel technologies in the field of cockpit displays, avionics systems, in particular safety systems, human factors, pilot workload, integration of flight procedure in the cockpit, and of airborne systems that influence ATM (e.g. ADS-B). ISAWARE II project is aimed at improving the safety level as referenced for 2010, by bringing down the current Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) related Approach-and-Landing Accident (ALA) rate for civil transport aircraft with about 5% per year, for a period of five years after consistent product introduction. Furthermore as terrain, weather and other traffic are presented to the crew in a natural way and the interactivity provides the means to cope with different situations, it is expected that Take-off and Landing intervals may become the same for IMC conditions as with those today under VMC conditions. It will bring the European industry not just aside, but ahead of US competitors.

Furthermore, development of such a novel and smart system clearly requires a pan-european effort with the most relevant stakeholders and capabilities involved to achieve the maximum synergy possible.

The ISAWARE-II project brings together a strong, enthusiastic team, willing to meat this challenge.