Hamburg, Germany South African Airways has selected Rockwell Collins’ PAVES™ 2 in-flight entertainment (IFE) with embedded Airshow® 3D Moving Map, including connecting gate information, for 20 new and two existing Airbus A320 aircraft.

Rockwell Collins’ PAVES 2 overhead IFE enhances the passenger experience with a much wider range of information and entertainment content than previous overhead system offerings. The system’s high definition media server (HDMS) offers 160 gigabytes of solid state digital audio and video storage capability, integrated pre-recorded announcements and music (PRAM) functionality with embedded Airshow 3D Moving Map, all in a single 4 modular concept unit (MCU), electronics bay-mounted box.

Rockwell Collins’ Airshow 3D Moving Map system includes a new graphical design that utilizes NASA’s Blue Marble map data, which is based on actual satellite imagery, to provide a view of real-time flight information to passengers.

Additionally, with PAVES 2, airlines have the option to handle updates of non-encrypted content themselves or through Rockwell Collins Content Services Group. This choice gives airlines flexibility in responding to commercial opportunities as they arise since time-sensitive content can be replaced at a moment’s notice, anywhere in the world.

Rockwell Collins’ PAVES family of IFE systems has installations on more than 1,600 single-aisle air transport aircraft.