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| 07.30.2009 |
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FAA Ensures Air Safety with King Air Turboprops
The Beechcraft King Air will soon be used to further support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in its responsibility for the safety of civil aviation. The FAA has operated King Air aircraft for decades and recently awarded Hawker Beechcraft...
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| 07.29.2009 |
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OCAS Approved for Use in NAS
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently published a memo announcing the approved use of Audio Visual Warning Systems (AVWS) in the National Airspace System (NAS) and the administration's intentions to...
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| 07.28.2009 |
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ADS-B Solutions from Becker Avionics
Becker Avionics says a new line of Mode S Transponders will be available by the end of 2009 after having successfully testing its ADS-B-Out and ADS-B–In technologies for airborne solutions. The new BXP62xx & BXT62xx Mode S Transponder Series...
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| 07.28.2009 |
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Garmin Leads the Way to NextGen
Garmin International has unveiled the GTS 800 and GTS 820 traffic advisory systems (TAS), and the GTS 850 traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS I). These systems combine active and passive surveillance data to...
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| 07.28.2009 |
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FAA to Employ King Air C90GTi
Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (HBC) has received an order from the Federal Aviation Administration for four King Air C90GTi turboprops, with an option for a...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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Pilot Fatigue to be Studied
The DOT's Office of the Inspector General will evaluate the issue of aviation fatigue among pilots. The announcement stated: Title: Audit Initiated on the Review of FAA Regulations and Airline Policies Regarding Crew Rest Requirements and Fatigue Issues...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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Better Coordination Needed to Boost African Aviation Safety
A recently released General Accountability Office (GAO) report says more can be done to improve aviation safety among the nations of Africa. The African continent is important to U.S. economic, strategic, and foreign policy interests, and efforts have been...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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Sensis Conducts Low Cost Ground Surveillance Effort
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected the Sensis Low Cost Ground Surveillance (LCGS) system for evaluation as part of a secondary airport runway safety pilot program. The FAA initiative aims to reduce runway incursions at small- and...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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Safety Oversight of On Demand Operators Criticized
There is less safety oversight of "on-demand" flight operators than commercial airlines, according to a new audit by Transportation Department's Office of the Inspector General. The IG report says the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducts...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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Safety & Technology Trends
First Regional Airline Safety Forum The FAA on July 21 held the first meeting in what will be a series of 12 nationwide regional airline safety forums aimed at reducing risk at regional air carrier operations. The initial forum, held in a Washington, DC...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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NextGen Task Force Seeks ‘Applicants’
The RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force recently assembled a “user validation” meeting in Memphis, Tenn., to determine which new operational capabilities airspace users would be willing to implement. Another such meeting is...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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ITT Awarded FAA ATC Contract
ITT Corp. was awarded a $66.8 million contract by FAA's Air Traffic Organization-Terminal (ATO-T) to define, engineer, and implement the next...
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| 07.27.2009 |
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GPS-Aided Indian Air Nav System
The Indian Space Research Organization has awarded an $82 million contract to Raytheon to modernize the Indian air navigation system. Raytheon will build the ground stations for the GPS-Aided Geosynchronous...
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| 07.24.2009 |
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Avionics, RTCA Team On NextGen Conference
Avionics Magazine and aviation advisory and standards-setting organization RTCA have teamed to disseminate the recommendations of the NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force to the aviation community. The Task Force recommendations will be explained at...
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| 07.23.2009 |
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WAM & ADS-B for the Azores
Era has been selected by NAVPortugal to deliver a wide area multilateration (WAM) and ADS-B system for the central group of islands in the Azores. Era's solution will utilize its MSS multilateration and ADS-B system to provide NAV Portugal with highly...
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| 07.23.2009 |
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ITT Teams with Oman RAF
ITT has been awarded a contract to supply a turnkey Air Traffic Control (ATC) solution for the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) at their new operational airbase. ITT will supply a turnkey ATC solution, including: a Terminal Air Surveillance Radar (TASR)...
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| 07.20.2009 |
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Helping Pilots Get Past Ocean Storms
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, are working on a system that would provide pilots on transoceanic flights more precise information about violent storms and clear air turbulence in their flight path. The NCAR...
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| 07.20.2009 |
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Alaska Air Going Green Over Seattle
This summer Alaska Airlines began testing next-generation flight procedures at Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International that will allow the airline and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, to reduce their environmental impact during airport approaches. Dubbed...
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| 07.20.2009 |
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Making Alaskan Airfield Approaches Safer
Approaching Alaskan airfields can be an aerial obstacle course for aircraft making descents and landings. Often surrounded by challenging mountainous terrain, air corridors into and out of the airports may be hemmed in by pinnacles, towering conifers and even...
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| 07.20.2009 |
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FAA/NCOIC Team on NextGen
The FAA and the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) have entered into an agreement to advance the Enterprise Architecture of NextGen, the FAA's national airspace system (NAS) transformation program. NCOIC's FAA contract has a potential...
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