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| 06.01.2006 |
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Editor’s Note: Hold the Cell Phones?
The prospect of in-flight cell phone communications seems to be growing more likely. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set the wheels in motion in 2004 by proposing to withdraw its ban on airborne use. The agency cited pico cell technology...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Editor's Note: A Pause for Reflection
The effort to adapt military technology to commercial aviation in order to protect U.S. airliners from shoulder-launched, heat-seeking missiles is poised to enter its third and final phase (see story). Contracts were being finalized as this issue went to...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Editor's Note: Domestic RVSM: The Next Steps
Put into operation in January 2005, domestic reduced vertical separation minimum (DRVSM) added six new altitudes to the high-altitude structure of the National Airspace System (NAS). Launching the effort in such a large airspace was quite a feat, and FAA...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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Editor’s Note: Introducing 3D Audio
The military research establishment over the years has developed technologies that have made a difference in the civilian world. Just think of GPS. The laboratories still pursue potentially dual-use innovations, as we report in this issue of Avionics...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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Editor’s Note: Militarizing FOQA
An article in this month's issue discusses a subject familiar to readers of Avionics Magazine--but from a very different perspective. We describe the U.S. Department of the Navy's plans to adapt a concept pioneered by the airline industry: flight operations...
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| 01.01.2006 |
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Editor's Note: Synthetic Vision: Time for Standards
Synthetic vision (SV), the database-driven presentation of terrain outside the cockpit, is gaining momentum. Avionics magazine has described development work by Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, BAE Systems (with partner Nav3D) and Boeing. We have covered Chelton...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Note: Talk of Change And a Goodbye
ARINC's Oishi set the tone for this year's Airline Elecronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) meeting when, in his welcoming remarks in the event's pocket guide, he noted the many changes taking place in the air transport market. Citing such new developments as...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Note: ADS-B: Its Time Has Come
It was quietly disclosed, with little fanfare. Had you not read an article by Charles Keegan, vice president, operations planning, with FAA's Air Traffic Organization, in an RTCA newsletter, you probably wouldn't know the decision was made. "We consider...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Note: UAVs and RNP
How urgent is the need to find ways to incorporate unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) into the national airspace system (NAS)? Read Holman Jenkins' column in the Aug. 24 issue of the Wall Street Journal, titled dramatically "When Robots Blacken the...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Note: Delivering Fuel Savings
Despite a sprinkling of bright spots in the air transport industry--aircraft orders inching up and some U.S. major carriers reporting positive, second quarter financial results--the dark cloud of escalating fuel prices looms stubbornly overhead. All carriers...
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| 08.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: Resolving NFF
In this issue we unearth the challenges of both isolating the root causes and conceiving solutions for no fault found (NFF) (see story), a complex problem affecting operators, maintenance facilities and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), alike. NFF and...
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| 07.01.2005 |
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Editor’s Note: Widespread Use of EFBs
In the May issue, I extolled in this space the virtues of the electronic flight bag (EFB) and reported that adopting this promising technology need not be costly. The expense can be kept in check, according to sources I quoted, by adopting the "building...
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| 06.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: More Bizjets Using FANS?
From our Q&A this month we learn that the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) is the first corporate aircraft certified for future air navigation system (FANS) operations. But it no longer is the only FANS-approved bizjet; in March Airbus won FANS certification on...
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| 05.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: Avionics Syndrome: An EFB Inhibitor?
If an electrical device is operated in the cockpit, it must be complex, certified and expensive, right? Well, not necessarily. And the inability to think beyond that bias probably has inhibited the widespread use of a convenient, yet relatively inexpensive...
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| 04.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: Repair Station Controversy
In our repair station outlook we refer to a "dynamic" market facing changes and challenges. What we don't mention is the controversy the repair station industry currently faces. In the United States that controversy surfaced in the form of critical...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: Security in the Balance
Are we more secure today than we were before 9/11? That question set the tone for a daylong symposium, titled "Post 9/11 Security Impacts on Air Traffic Control and Aviation," held Jan. 25 in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by the Air Traffic...
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| 02.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: Stretching The Dollar
Just how far can a dollar be stretched? Two initiatives announced late last year may well provide the answer. Both are significant to civil aviation. And both initiatives will require a large amount of funding at a time when revenues are hard to come by...
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| 01.01.2005 |
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Editor's Note: Checking Industry’s Cache Quotient
As in years past, our annual outlook report is festooned with figures, charts and graphs, all to take the economic pulse of the aviation industry and the avionics field. Typical of industry forecasts, the report is analytical and dispassionate. But aviation...
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| 12.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Note: Steering Clear of a Perfect Storm
Has the U.S. aviation industry entered a "perfect storm"? That dire analogy is how one speaker at the recent Air Traffic Controllers Association (ATCA) conference described the current whirlwind of change taking place in the makeup and outlook of...
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| 11.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Note: Tail Wagging The Dog?
The 21st century, we are told, will be "the century of Asia." Just as Europe dominated economically in the 19th century, and North America prevailed in the 20th century, so it is Asia's turn to be the planet's economic powerhouse in the 21st...
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