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Calendar
Calendar July 17-23 Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough Airport, England. Call +44 (0) 20 7976 3330 or visit www.farnborough.com. 18-20 A course on practical vibration and shock testing, measurement, analysis and calibration, Cascade Tek...
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Honeywell Boots APEX
Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace has announced upgrades to the APEX integrated avionics package planned for the Grob SPn, a light jet for business aviation. Honeywell says the improvements will reduce pilot workload, improve situational awareness and provide...
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Avionics Technicians Banyan Air Service at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport has appointed John DiMattei as avionics engineer and Patrick Daniel as a technician installing avionics systems and components. DiMattei is responsible for design and engineering...
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Honeywell Boots APEX Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace has announced upgrades to the APEX integrated avionics package planned for the Grob SPn, a light jet for business aviation. Honeywell says the improvements will reduce pilot workload, improve situational...
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See and Avoid in IMC
At A Glance: We discuss several NASA technologies that could help to enable "see and avoid" under IFR conditions: -- Autonomous flight rules; -- Cockpit display of traffic information with conflict probe and...
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UAVs in Europe: When Will They File and Fly?
At A Glance: Europe, in collaboration with the U.S., is forging a path toward integration of UAVs into civil airspace. We discuss: -- Sense-and-avoid issues, -- Regulatory challenges, and -- UK developments. The UAV community has visions of using...
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Safety: Where’s Redundancy?
Together with recent reports of screens going blank in the cockpit, this story does not inspire lasting or fervent confidence in automation. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) headlines its recent report as a "navigation system failure,"...
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| 06.01.2006 |
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Calendar
June 22-23 RNAV and Beyond, a course sponsored by Helios Information Services at Flemings Mayfair Hotel, London, UK. Contact Helios, phone +44 207 340 1610, fax +44 207 828 6439, e-mail events@corporateteam.com or visit www.helios-is.com/rnav. July 13-14 UV...
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Europe's Vision of Future Avionics
At A Glance: As part of a wider issue focusing on the future Overall ATM/communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) Target Architecture (OATA), Eurocontrol has released an avionics study targeting three time frames: now-to-2007, 2007-2011 and 2011-2020...
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Military ATM: Meeting Civil Standards
At A Glance: Air traffic management modernization initiatives are impacting military aviation across the board. We discuss: U.S. Air Force and Navy equipage; and USAF’s GATM office. As the civil air traffic management (ATM) infrastructure evolves to...
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New Products
Lithium Ion-Powered Transceiver Icom America of Bellevue, Wash., has introduced A24Li, a high-power version of its A24 Navicom transceiver. The handheld unit features a lithium ion battery, which the company says provides 14 to 16 hours of continuous...
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Eric Schmidlin As part of a company-wide expansion of customer service for its Entegra series of flight decks, multifunction displays and traffic advisory systems, Avidyne Corp. has appointed Eric Schmidlin as director of customer service and support. He was...
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Perspectives: The Aviation Industry and Transmitting PEDs
Cell phones, wireless networks, two-way pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other transmitting portable electronic devices (T-PEDs) are growing rapidly in popularity. These devices all emit radio frequency signals, thus the generic term, T-PEDs. As...
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Q&A: Bill Strauss: Academic Look at Interference
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) from portable electronic devices (PEDs) is a growing concern, given the omnipresence of cell phones. RTCA's Special Committee 202 (SC-202) is addressing the issue in preparation for technology being developed to permit cell...
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Safety: An Emergency and No Guidance
The EasyJet B737-300 crew was nonplussed but coped well with myriad electrical failures that prompted them to divert from their planned flight from Nice, France, to Luton, UK, landing instead at Lyons, France. Details of the March 2005 incident are contained...
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Electronic Flight Bag Virgin Atlantic Airways has picked Chicago-based navAero's t?BagC22 Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB) as part of a project to equip its fleet of Airbus A340s and Boeing 747s. The installation will use navAero's EFB hardware and the...
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Securing ACARS: Data Link in the Post-9/11 Environment
At A Glance: ACARS message security is under scrutiny in the post-9/11 environment. This story covers: Airline efforts to develop a standard approach to ACARS security; and The parallel push from the USAF, which would be a major customer. Strange as it may...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Setting a Course: Beyond GPS
At A Glance: This article surveys non-U.S. satellite-based navigation systems being developed or modified--Europe's Galileo, Japan's JRANS and QZSS, and Russia's GLONASS--as well as GPS. Satellite navigation, once felt to be an almost exclusive U.S. monopoly...
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Broadband to the Bizjet Cabin
At A Glance: High-speed connectivity is a priority for executives. We describe broadband advances by ARINC, Rockwell Collins and Inmarsat, plus cell phone support by Honeywell and Inmarsat. Connectivity is a priority in this fast-paced business environment...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Cabin Surveillance: Industry Debates the Need for Video
FAA officials are reviewing the responses to the agency's notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), titled "Flight Deck Door Monitoring and Crew Discreet Alerting Systems." The NPRM--docket number FAA-2005-22449, amending Part 121--represents the...
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