Empowering pilots: How GE Aerospace FlightPulse uses Mapbox to elevate safety and sustainability
summary
FlightPulse is an iPad app that adds a Preflight module showing anonymized historical trajectories at airports, used by ~60,000 pilots across 30 airlines and 40 biz-jet operators. It visualizes runway heatmaps, time-point distributions, localizer-deviation clusters, taxi routes and flight animations using Mapbox tiles, Studio styles and the SDK. Performance scales to hundreds+ tracks by batching into a single GeoJSON source and calling update geojson source to avoid per-track layers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:23What is FlightPulse
- 3:29Pre-flight module development
- 7:21Pre-flight demo overview
- 13:00Mapbox implementation details
- 16:09Zoom interactions and performance
- 18:38Q&A with the team
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