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| Date | News |
| 17DEC | MD-82 SE-DIL has been added to the SAS Aircraft Fleet, currently totalling 95 airplanes. And the datalink Figures for Nov 99 are now available. |
| 13DEC | New ATIS sites added recently: Hannover (Germany), Munich (Germany) and Halifax (Canada). All via ARINC. |
| 08DEC | A new application called Irregularity Information has been moved to production. It provides the flight crew with updates regarding traffic irregularities that affect the specific flight, or the departure/arrival station in general. |
| 08DEC | During the early hours of the morning the SAS Hermes ground datalink system was successfully upgraded with new, powerful servers. The impact on datalink operations was minimal. |
| 06DEC | Turku (TKU) airport, Finland, is now on-line with a new RGS. |
| 02DEC | The Scandinavian CAAs have made good progress
during 1999 to provide ATIS via ACARS as an alternative
to traditional ATIS voice broadcast. This is believed to be the current
status: Copenhagen: Operational ATIS available via SITA. ATIS trial via ARINC expected to be available during Dec 99. Oslo: ATIS trial available via ARINC. Stockholm: ATIS trial available via ARINC and SITA. For other ATIS sites worldwide, see the ATIS page. |
| 30NOV | MD-81 SE-DII added to the SAS Aircraft Fleet. Several MD-80 and B737 airplanes are to change registrations during Dec 1999. Old and new regs will be displayed on the SAS Aircraft Fleet page. |
| 22NOV | MD-82 LN-RMJ added to the SAS Aircraft Fleet. |
| 19NOV | Sandefjord/Torp airport (TRF) in Norway
is on line with an RGS. MD-83 LN-RMF and MD-87 OY-KHI have been equipped, bringing the total SAS Aircraft Fleet to 92 airplanes. Datalink Figures for October are now published. Enjoy! |
| 18NOV | Starting 16NOV the ACARS Loadsheet and Notoc program has been expanded to include all B737 and MD-90 international departures from ARN. B767 departures from ARN and EWR are included as before. |
| 17NOV | New RGSs have recently come on-line on the ARINC network: Kirkenes, Norway (KKN), Vaasa, Finland (VAA), Cologne, Germany (CGN), Hamburg, Germany (HAM), Berlin-Schonefeld, Germany (SXF). |
| 05NOV | Added LN-RMU and OY-KHK - two MD-80s - to the growing SAS Aircraft Fleet, now totalling 90 aircraft. |
| 04NOV | Added a new page for the Crew List message. |
| 04NOV | SAS' first B737-783 SE-DTG landed at Stockholm-Arlanda
airport today after a non-stop delivery flight from Boeing Field, Seattle.
Airborne time 8 hrs 52 min. Added MD-80 SE-DIK to the SAS Aircraft Fleet. Also MD-80 SE-DIC has been activated. |
| 20OCT | Added MD-82 SE-DFR to the SAS Aircraft Fleet. Added 2 new pages describing the user interfaces available to ground staff that need to use datalink: The DT-Application on a VDU and the Hermes Messenger (PC-based). |
| 19OCT | Since Monday 11 Oct the operational Loadsheet and Notoc documents are delivered via ACARS to all departing B767 flights out of ARN and EWR. The traditional hand-carried paper Loadsheet/Notoc is used as backup only. The ACARS Loadsheet/Notoc is electronically signed by the Commander. |
| 18OCT | Added 2 B737s due for delivery soon: SE-DTG (no 28) and OY-KKP (no 29). 'DTG is the first -700 model for SAS. |
| 14OCT | Added a new page on RGS locations vs SAS destinations. |
| 05OCT | Updated the Figures page with datalink figures from September. |
| 04OCT | Added MD-87 SE-DIF. See Equipped a/c. |
| 01OCT | Updated the page on MET
Data page with two interesting articles from the SMHI Newsletter Högtryck.
Enjoy! Added B737-683 SE-DTU, due to be delivered next week. It is the 27th B737. See Equipped a/c. |
| 30SEP | Added a page for the Diversion Report and updated several other pages. If you have not checked them in recent weeks it might be worth doing so. The Index provides an overview of what is available. |
| 29SEP | Added pages for Oceanic Clearance and Transfer Info. Updated the page on future developments within datalink. |
| 27SEP | Added a page with some details on the ACARS Printer onboard the aircraft. |
| 24SEP | SAS is one of four airlines participating
in a European Weather Reporting Study starting this week. The ACMS
system onboard B767 and B737 aircraft register MET Data
observations during flight and send them over ACARS to a meteorological
database. Atmospheric weather observations from scheduled flights provide
more data and are more cost-effective than traditional weather balloon probes. Updated the From Departure to Arrival story. |
| 22SEP | MD-81 OY-KGY activated. Added a page with some words on the future developments of datalink. Updated the Acronyms page. |
| 21SEP | SAS datalink Y2K testing has been completed with Arinc and Sita for all aircraft types. No significant problems were discovered. As far as the testing can prove, the datalink system will continue to operate in the next millenium. |
| 20SEP | Added a page with a (very) brief description of the MCDU, the pilot's user interface for datalink. Added pages on the NOTOC and Irregularity Info applications. Added an Index for the growing number of Datalink pages on this site. |
| 15SEP | Updated the Datalink Introduction page. Added a page on Milestones in the program. Updated the Equipped a/c page with a Fleet Summary table and added a page on Fleet Plans. |
| 13SEP | Updated the From Departure
to Arrival page and the Acronyms page. Updated the Equipped a/c page: MD-81 OY-KHL is now equipped with ACARS. The total SAS Aircraft Fleet is 82 aircraft. |
| 10SEP | Added a new page called From Departure to Arrival. It is an account of how a typical flight is supported by datalink, from start to finish. The Datalink Introduction page has also been updated. |
| 09SEP | Updated the Applications page with links to new pages that contain information about ETA Update, Freetext Telex, MEL Advisory and Inrange Report. Also updated many of the existing pages, including ACMS, Snag Report and Loadsheet. |
| 03SEP | Updated the Figures page with datalink figures for August. |
| 03SEP | On the What is Datalink? page added links to pages that contain a little more information about ACARS' Limitations, Performance and Costs. |
| 03SEP | Updated the Applications page with links new pages with a little information on the ACMS, Loadsheet, Snag Report and Weather applications. Enjoy! |
| 01SEP | Updated the Applications page. Added links from the table on that page to new pages that provide a little information about the ATIS, Delay messages, Initialization, Movement messages and Takeoff Data applications. Have fun! |
| 30AUG | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-81OY-KGZ as well as B737-600s SE-DTF and LN-RPH
added to the SAS Aircraft Fleet. The total SAS Aircraft Fleet is now 79 airplanes. SAS' aircraft fleet processes more than 5000 ACARS messages per day. The uplink/downlink ratio is about 1:4. |
| 24AUG | On August 23 a logistically challenging live end-to-end Y2K-test (year 2000) was performed with a SAS B767-300ER at Chicago O'Hare airport. The airplane logged-on to a special Y2K ARINC VHF ground station. ACARS movement reports, ACMS and TODC applications were tested against SAS ground computer systems. No problems were experienced. |
| 23AUG | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-81OY-KHG added to the SAS Aircraft Fleet. The total SAS Aircraft Fleet is now 76 airplanes. |
| 16AUG | The Figures page updated with datalink figures for July. |
| 16AUG | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-80s LN-RLR and LN-RMG added to the fleet. Also the
system has been activated on MD-80s LN-RMD, OY-KHU, SE-DFS, SE-DMD. These
aircraft had been operating for some time with the system deactivated. The total SAS Aircraft Fleet is now 75 airplanes, consisting of 14 B767s, 24 B737s, 8 MD-90s, 29 MD-80s. |
| 21JUL | Equipped a/c updated with 6 new airplanes. B737-600s LN-RPE, LN-RPF, SE-DNY and SE-DNZ added. MD-87s LN-RMK and SE-DIH added. The total SAS Aircraft Fleet is now 73 airplanes |
| 08JUL | The Figures page updated with datalink figures for June. |
| 01JUL | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-80 LN-RMA activated. The MD-80 SAS Aircraft Fleet now totals 25 aircraft. The system is activated on 20 of these. |
| 30JUN | Added a new datalink page called Figures with some fascinating month-by-month statistics. |
| 28JUN | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-80s LN-RMS and OY-KHC added. MD-80s OY-KGT and SE-DFY
activated. Total fleet now 67 airplanes. |
| 26JUN | Another ACARS addition, a B737-600 OY-KKF,
arrived at Stockholm-Arlanda after a nonstop delivery flight from Seattle-Boeing
Field. Airborne time 8 hrs 58 minutes. Most of the flight operated at FL410. The B737, together with the B767, is the leading user of datalink in SAS, partly as a result of the successful Takeoff Data application. |
| 18JUN | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-82 LN-RLF added and ACARS on MD-82 LN-RLE has been
activated. Total fleet is now 65 airplanes. The B737-600 is the largest fleet using ACARS (18 airplanes in service so far). 22 MD-80 series airplanes have had ACARS installed. The system is currently activated on 14 of these. |
| 15JUN | Equipped a/c updated. MD-82 SE-DID added. B737-600 OY-KKF added. Total fleet now 64 airplanes. |
| 04JUN | Equipped a/c updated. MD-81 SE-DME added. B737-600 OY-KKE added. Total fleet now 62 airplanes. |
| 31MAY | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-82 SE-DIA added. Total fleet now 60 airplanes. Cleaned up text and corrected some typos on datalink main page and what is datalink. Applications updated. |
| 28MAY | Equipped a/c updated. MD-81 SE-DIS added. Total fleet now 59 airplanes. |
| 26MAY | Equipped
a/c updated. MD-87 LN-RMP added. Total fleet now 58 airplanes. In April the total datalink traffic for the first time exceeded 100.000 datalink messages. The average number of messages is 15 on a short-haul flight, 50 on an intercontinental flight. |
| 21MAY | Equipped a/c updated. MD-87 LN-RMH added. Total fleet now 57 airplanes. |
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