Gogo Offers More Cockpit Data and Wireless IFE Updates

Airborne connectivity provider Gogo Business Aviation has introduced an expanded suite of cockpit and data link services, new wireless update capability for its Gogo Vision entertainment system and enhanced ATG 1000 app support.

Through Honeywell’s Global Data Center, Gogo (Booth N1716) can now provide Inmarsat Classic Aero voice and data service, and flight planning, data link, graphical cockpit and weather information plus flight-following services. Gogo said the new offering is part of a larger initiative from the Chicago-based company to expand its voice and data airtime services.

The package also provides customers with “the convenience of single-source activation, support and unified monthly billing,” according to John Wade, Gogo Business Aviation executive vice president and general manager.

The new update capability for Gogo Vision gives customers the ability to receive automatic content updates via Gogo Cloud in their hangars, by installing a simple, no-charge equipment package. Previously these updates could only be performed at certain Signature Flight Support FBO locations. Pointing to the impracticality of transmitting large media files over airborne connections, and the labor-intensive demands of updating content manually, Wade said Gogo’s new method “further reinvents the process.”

Also new is support through Gogo’s ATG 1000 for several cockpit and operational applications, including apps from FlightAware, ForeFlight, Honeywell and WSI. The ATG 1000 already supports voice, email and texting with passengers’ own smartphones.