The old ‘legacy cockpit’ is shown on the top while the modernized ‘glass cockpit’ is shown on the bottom. The NATO E-3A fleet is being modernized to ensure compliance with current and provides the requisites for future air traffic control and navigation requirements as well as giving the aircraft broader access to airspace around the world. Additionally, the upgrade reduces the cockpit crew to two pilots and a flight engineer and solves the challenge of finding out-of-production avionics for the fleet by utilizing available commercial-off-the-shelf digital avionics.
