EGPWS/TAWS provides flight department personnel with a comprehensive description of TAWS and its seven modes designed to alert flight crews to a possible terrain conflict. Examples show you when a basic ground proximity warning system might not have been enough to give adequate protection to an aircraft and how today's advanced TAWS expands the safety envelope.
The course includes the following topics:
- Introduction
- TAWS Regulations and Class descriptions
- Components and Capabilities
- TAWS Modes 1 through 7
- Terrain Alerting Display (TAD)
- Premature decent alerting
- Aural message priority
- Geometric Altitude
- Pilot responses and limitations
- Post-Course Assessment (Exam)