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Keep passengers and crew safe and fuel costs down

Turbulence is on the rise, and current tracking tools fall short due to imprecise location, subjectivity and time lag. To protect passengers and crew, pilots often keep seatbelt signs on and change altitude, which can cause discomfort and fuel inefficiency. Accurate, real-time turbulence data is essential for better decision-making and smoother flights.

Turbulence poses serious safety risks, injuring passengers who are not wearing seatbelts. Cabin crew are particularly at risk. It can even force flight diversions, adding cost and inconvenience. Without precise data, pilots may take overly cautious routes, increasing fuel use. Real-time sharing of turbulence events would empower pilots to act confidently and efficiently.

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Who is IATA Turbulence Aware for?

Airlines

Airlines can use the in-situ, objective, real-time turbulence reports for various operational use cases.

Authorized Agents

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Business Aviation

Enhance customer experience through use of real-time turbulence data.

Research | MET | ANSP

Access wind, temperature, and EDR turbulence data.

Turbulence Aware serves aviation

A global, industry-wide, data exchange platform, Turbulence Aware receives the existing airline data from ground servers, performs quality control, deidentifies data, and provides the data back to airlines via a ground-to-ground system-to-system connection.

  • Turbulence Aware viewer via Wi-Fi – Mapped real-time turbulence reports inform your operational decision-making
  • Integration with in-house or third-party flight planning or in-flight weather tools – To speed up decision-making
  • EDR-based – Energy/eddy-dissipation rate (EDR) is a calculated estimate of the atmosphere’s turbulent state. It is NOT a measure of the response of an individual aircraft. It is the official ICAO & WMO metric for measuring turbulence intensity
  • Detailed report available for each data point – Including time, altitude, aircraft position, mean and peak EDR values as well as wind and temperature data, to increase situational awareness
  • Anonymized data – To protect airlines’ identity and privacy
  • Technical assistance – IATA provides assistance to airlines looking to implement open source EDR reporting software developed by the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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Delta Air Lines
“IATA’s collaborative approach to creating Turbulence Aware with open-source data means that airlines will have access to data to better mitigate turbulence."

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Frequently asked questions

IATA Turbulence Aware is a global, industry-wide, data exchange platform, to collect, standardize and share real-time turbulence data generated directly from aircrafts. The IATA Turbulence Aware Platform provides airline pilots dispatchers and flight operations with real-time and detailed turbulence information, enhancing safety, reducing turbulence related injuries, optimizing flight routes, lowering carbon emissions and enhancing passenger comfort.

IATA’s role is to consolidate the existing turbulence data and work towards increasing global data coverage. Airlines own their data and are free to share their own data with other entities. IATA Turbulence Aware is a non-proprietary solution from a data ownership perspective.

Turbulence values are calculated with an EDR (Eddy Dissipation Rate) algorithm using atmospheric and aircraft data. Aircraft are already equipped with EDR capabilities or simply need a customization, there is no hardware involved.

EDR stands for Energy/Eddy Dissipation Rate. EDR is the official ICAO & WMO turbulence intensity metric for measuring the state of the atmosphere around an aircraft in flight. It provides a standardized measure of atmospheric conditions surrounding an aircraft during flight, helping ensure consistent and accurate turbulence reporting across the globe.

Step 1: Calculation. EDR values are produced by software installed on the aircraft.

Step 2: Input. EDR values are automatically downlinked from aircraft to the ground & forwarded to IATA’s Turbulence Aware database.

Step 3: Processing. EDR format and quality are confirmed, and data is anonymized, then EDR reports are stored.

Step 4: Access. EDR data can be pushed in real-time to an airline or pulled from IATA’s Live or Archive data storage.

Step 5: Display. An airline has 3 options to consume the EDR data: through in-house or third party flight planning tools or in-flight weather tools, or through the IATA Turbulence Aware MET Viewer.

Yes. Beside the EDR, the turbulence reports will include the following parameters: altitude, longitude and latitude coordinates, wind speed, wind direction and air temperature.