Avidyne and MIT researchers have been working for the past three years on improved ADS-B traffic alerting algorithms that the FAA hopes to use as the baseline standard for the entire avionics industry. Now the collaboration has led to the development of an Avidyne traffic alert feature called VeriTAS that has the goal of providing more precise collision alerting while eliminating nuisance alerts.
At a Sun ‘n Fun press conference on Tuesday morning, Avidyne founder Dan Schwinn outlined the basics of the VeriTAS concept. The word veritas is latin for “truth,” and that’s exactly what the Avidyne and MIT software seeks to give pilots by creating two distinct zones of protection around aircraft, the larger of which can dynamically change depending on the severity of the traffic threat.
