Ground proximity warning system
Sistema de alerta de proximidad al suelo
- Date
- 1974 · confidence medium
- Place
- Redmond, Washington, United States
- Credited to
- C. Donald Bateman
- Field
- Movement
What it is
An avionics system that alerts the crew when an aircraft is in imminent danger of colliding with terrain or an obstacle, a type of terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS). It drastically reduced controlled-flight-into-terrain accidents.
Developed by engineer C. Donald Bateman at Sundstrand Data Control (later Honeywell), in Redmond, Washington.
What it led to
- a drastic reduction in controlled-flight-into-terrain accidents
- a regulatory requirement in commercial aviation worldwide
- evolution into the enhanced EGPWS system in 1996