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    awareness and warning system (TAWS). More advanced systems, introduced in 1996, are known as enhanced ground proximity warning systems (EGPWS), a modern...
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    The specific systems currently in use are the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) and the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). The U...
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    That system was further improved with the addition of a GPS terrain database and is now known as an enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS)...
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    was a Canadian electrical engineer and the inventor of the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), a device that is responsible for a marked decline in...
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  • avoidance warning system / enhanced ground proximity warning system). Both systems provide warnings and verbal instructions. The auditory warnings produced...
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  • possible by a software enhancement to the aircraft's terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) or enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). Alaska...
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    10% at fault, and American Airlines was 60% at fault. An enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) that could have prevented the accident was introduced...
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    touchdown, the aircraft's rapid descent triggered the enhanced ground proximity warning system, which sounded a "sink rate" alert in the cockpit. Just...
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    2, the NTSB recovered the cockpit voice recorder, the enhanced ground proximity warning system, which could contain flight data, and the two engines of...
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    GPS Dual IRS Dual DME/ Dual ADF Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS II) Aviation portal Canada...
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    orbit, the aircraft's Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System sent out a single "Terrain Ahead, Pull Up" audio alert, warning the crew that their predicted...
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    An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and...
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  • aerospace, and aeronautics – Wiktionary McDonald, Sandy A.F. From the ground up. Aviation Publishers Co. Ltd. pp. Appendix B. Jeppesen, Boeing. A&P Technician...
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    integrate GPS and Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) technology, adding a real-time, three-dimensional display of terrain. The system was operational...
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    dual mode-S transponder, enhanced ground proximity warning system, and traffic collision avoidance system. In 2005, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority...
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    Altitude. The flight crew heard, but disregarded, thirteen Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) aural alerts (Glideslope and Sink Rate) and flew...
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  • group has created safety systems that have become commonplace in aviation, such as the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS), RAAS, and the stable...
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    weather radar, digital map generation system, enhanced ground proximity warning system, personal locator system, and VHF/UHF/HF tactical radios. In 2015...
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    management system (FMS), improved weather radar, a central maintenance system, and a new version of the current enhanced ground proximity warning system. With...
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    focusing on radio communications during the upset until the enhanced ground proximity warning system activated. 2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash Gordeyeva...
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    navigation system. The Typhoon can use Instrument Landing System (ILS) for landing in poor weather. The aircraft also features an enhanced ground proximity warning...
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    weather and that the flight crew ignored alerts from the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS). On 18 January 2025, the final report into the...
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    the captain did not respond. Soon after at 15:29:18, the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) issued an aural "five hundred" feet altitude alert...
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    crew executed a go-around, the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) "TERRAIN AHEAD, PULL UP" audio warning was triggered too late to be of...
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    thunderstorm warnings with a yellow or orange polygon or filled county/parish/equivalent jurisdiction outline. The NWS has the option of adding enhanced wording...
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    Recorder (FDR). The CVR recorded the following at this time: Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS): "Minimum." First officer: "Minimum." Captain:...
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    calls from the first officer to 'go around' and warnings from the enhanced ground proximity warning system. Additional factors included the captain's prolonged...
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  • local airlines. While flying through clouds, the aircraft's ground proximity warning system sounded in the cockpit. The pilots disregarded it, believing...
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    Yusupov. Soon after the autopilot disconnected, an enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) warning called out "don't sink" as the aircraft descended...
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  • in the development of enhanced ground proximity warning systems (EGPWS) in the 1990s and terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) with forward-looking...
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