To make revised data available as soon as it is ready rather than when new paper charts or manuals are sent out, the company has invested more than $20 million in the Jeppesen Aviation Database (JAD), which went live last October and replaces the flight information management database.Īs well as being used to generate charts, JAD can provide direct updates for the Boeing 737 and BBJ flight management systems and for the Rockwell Collins GNLU 9000. Since the mid-1990s, he said, the company has been investing in the development of a new database that will provide the foundation for a new range of integrated products.Įach month Jeppesen processes 25,000 documents from the world’s civil aviation authorities to update its NavData navigation database. The company has been known for too long as “the boys with the books,” according to vice president of commercial aviation Thomas Wede in his introduction to a recent series of briefings at Jeppesen’s eastern hemisphere headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Aeronautical data specialist Jeppesen is investing heavily in a move from paper-based to electronic products that should enhance flight and ground operations while helping eliminate the need for paper manuals and charts.
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