Industry Addendum
Shenzhen Airlines evaluates Inmarsat-Cobham broadband flight deck system
May 1st 2017
Early this month Shenzhen Airlines will commence inflight evaluation of SwiftBroadband-Safety (SB-S), Inmarsat’s next generation IP-based broadband service for the flight deck. Read More » The SB-S platform will be installed on the southern Chinese airline’s A320 airplanes using Cobham Avionic’s AVIATOR 300D hardware.
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The joint venture partners are Inmarsat, Beijing Marine Communications and Navigation Company and the Aviation Data Communication Corporation. The system must be found to be in compliance with the relevant Civil Aviation Authority of China mandates. Three core capabilities will be tested: satellite voice communications, integral global flight tracking and ACARS over IP (traditionally used to communication with the airline operations centre and air traffic control).
