Airport Moving Map

The Jeppesen Airport Moving Map (AMM) application utilizes a series of high resolution airport data to portray vector-based airport maps.  The AMM application helps orient the flight crew to the aircraft's position on the ground in relation to runways, taxiways, and airport structures, without reference to a paper chart.  Its objective is to help enable operators improve their safety and operational efficiency margins through increased positional awareness and reduced flight crew workload.

The Jeppesen Class 2 AMM application will automatically scale to either portrait or landscape screen format depending on the orientation used by the operating system.

Airport Moving Map (AMM) is currently classified by the EFB Advisory Circular (AC120-76A, "Guidelines for the Certification, Airworthiness, and Operational Approval of Electronic Flight Bag Computing Devices) as a Type C application if it shows position of ownship.  The AMM application has been successfully installed in the Boeing Class 3 EFB solution in 777 and 737 aircraft with Boeing EFB hardware.

On April 30, 2007, the FAA signed AC 20-159, "Obtaining Design and Production Approval of Airport Moving Map Display Applications Intended for Electronic Flight Bag Systems."  This AC will allow aircraft/ownship position capabilities on Class 2 devices.  

When the aircraft is on the ground, the Jeppesen AMM application auto loads the appropriate airport taxi map based on location, as determined by input from the aircraft FMC and GPS signal.  The user has the ability to:

• Search available airport maps
• Select the airport map via one-button access
• Display the ownship position on a moving map
• Zoom in and out of a taxiway map
• View the airport map in North-up, stationary mode for planning
• View the airport map for tactical operation, including taxiing

In the North-up (planning mode), AMM will display a stationary map in North-up orientation.  The user may pan the map to any location on the airport surface.  The user may re-center on the aircraft position at any time by pressing the "Center Map" button.

In Heading-up (tactical mode), AMM will display ownship position as the aircraft moves over the airport surface, or display the aircraft in the center of the display, with the chart scrolling and rotating underneath.

The text on the map display maintains horizontal (read-right) orientation, except for runway markings, which retain their orientation to their respective runway.  As the map scale is changed, the text remains appropriately sized to accommodate human factor requirements.  When zooming in, and during movement, the identifiers (names) of relevant runways and taxiways will remain visible.

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