Upgraded Software Offers A Long Menu Of Enhancements
WSI Corporation announced WSI
Fusion 2.2 Tuesday, upgrading its highly successful WSI Fusion
application. The online service provides proactive information on
changing flight, airport, and airspace conditions. Among several
new features added to its list of capabilities, WSI Fusion 2.2
includes tracking of global lightning information, tropical
pseudo-radar imagery and projected aircraft positioning.
The new release of WSI Fusion extends WSI’s global weather
decision support capabilities by helping operators identify areas
of convection that may cause enroute turbulence or icing. When
combined with WSI’s global enroute convective and turbulence
guidance, issued by WSI’s experienced team of aviation
meteorologists and Fusion’s proprietary manage-by-exception
alerting engine, Fusion enables operators to plan proactively and
mitigate the impacts of disruptive events.
“As a critical partner in aviation operations management
for carriers, corporations and airports, WSI Fusion helps managers
to stay ahead of changing operational conditions and take positive
action to reduce operational impacts,” said Mark D. Miller,
VP and General Manager of WSI’s Aviation Division. “WSI
Fusion 2.2 further enhances its global capabilities -- most notably
in areas of global turbulence and expanded global lightning
coverage. Through proactive operation management and control, the
WSI Fusion service enables air carriers to reduce cost per flight
segment, which is imperative in the current operating
environment.”
Version 2.2’s teaming of precise terminal and enroute
forecasts with flight-centric alerting provides early insight into
critical flying conditions. This results in operational
flexibility, and ultimately, improved fuel planning.
For example, Version 2.2 alerts operators when a flight plan
intersects with WSI’s global enroute turbulence forecast area
and then enables optimal routing to reduce fuel usage and
turbulence incidents.
Among the WSI Fusion 2.2 upgrades are:
- Expanded satellite-derived pseudo radar depicts convective
activity in the central latitudes, where traditional ground-based
precipitation radar coverage is unavailable. This capability is
available worldwide from approximately 30 degrees north, to 30
degrees south latitude.
- Expanded real-time lightning coverage from WSI’s Global
Lightning Network. (GLN). When combined with WSI‘s global
products and enroute hazard services, WSI’s GLN provides an
unrivalled capability to locate and route-plan around enroute
convective activity.
- Enhanced flight data interface supports flight data from
sources other than traditional FAA and EUROCONTROL sources,
enabling the tracking of airborne aircraft movements
worldwide.
- Extended airspace restriction, flight information, and flight
projection capabilities for aircraft operators participating in the
EUROCONTROL Electronic Flight Data (EFD) trial program.
“Development of Fusion 2.2’s global reach has been
customer driven,” said John Szatkowski, WSI Product Manager.
“This new version provides deeper and more pervasive early
insight into disruptive events, empowering users to take positive
action that reduces impacts. The end result is safer, more
efficient operations in areas with sparse or unreliable data
sources, mitigating the impact of enroute hazards and improving
routing and fuel planning.”