http://www.aviationtoday.com Aviation Today en-us 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:18 EDT Avionics Editor in  Chief Emily Feliz After a few tense days, and hours and hours of flight delays endured by passengers, air traffic controllers, furloughed by silly sequestration cuts, went back to work in late April, and again the skies are friendly with just the usual, every day delays. Controllers... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Furloughed_79249.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT It’s tough to be a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems these days. Not only are they facing regulatory hurdles to the Congressional mandate to integrate unmanned systems into the National Airspace System (NAS), but the more pressing and immediate threat, for once, isn’t coming... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Return-of-the-Drones_78556.html Fri, 1 Mar 2013 0:00:00 EST The clock struck midnight on Dec. 31, the ball dropped, confetti was thrown and, the United States teetered on the brink, but did not fall over, the fiscal cliff. It took some last-minute wrangling and tense negotiations, but lawmakers passed, and the President Obama ultimately signed, the American Taxpayer... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Back-from-the-Brink_78284.html Fri, 1 Feb 2013 0:00:00 EST Editor Emily Feliz As I write this, the country is perched on the edge of the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a series of deep budget cuts prompted by an impasse in budget talks. Politicians on both sides are pointing fingers, both saying the other side won’t budge and claiming the... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Fiscal-Cliff_78146.html Tue, 1 Jan 2013 0:00:00 EST Hurricane, super storm, mega storm, perfect storm, and my favorite, Frankenstorm. All were used to describe the weather event that barreled up the Eastern seaboard of the United States the weekend of Oct. 27, cancelling thousands of flights and closing down some of the nation’s largest airports for... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Frankenstorm_77963.html Sat, 1 Dec 2012 0:00:00 EST What started out as military-only network has exploded so that everyone, everywhere is connected via GPS. You can get GPS in your car, on your phone, on the boat, and, yes, even on an airplane. For aircraft operators, the systems are invaluable, providing benefits that allow pilots to safely and efficiently... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Recalculating_77703.html Thu, 1 Nov 2012 0:00:00 EDT The collective eyes of the business aviation industry will be laser-focused on Orlando, Fla., later this month for the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA) annual meeting and convention, hoping to take a pulse of the current market conditions and gain insight into the future. You could make... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Eyes-on-Orlando_77434.html Mon, 1 Oct 2012 0:00:00 EDT The unmanned aviation industry is poised for some rather explosive growth in the next few years, if the discussions on the floor of the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) are to be believed. Hundreds of professionals gathered in Las Vegas last month, displaying airframes of all... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-note-2015-UAS-Odyssey_77074.html Sat, 1 Sep 2012 0:00:00 EDT Power Bus Testing Most electrical and electronic products deployed on aircraft must meet strict requirements with respect to power bus anomalies, such as brown outs, surges, sags, interruptions and transients. To verify compliance, commercial aircraft manufacturers publish standards that vendors and... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Perspectives_77085.html Sat, 1 Sep 2012 0:00:00 EDT It’s been a little more than a decade since I left journalism school. It was 2001, and it was a simpler time — a tweet was a sound a bird made, tablets were something you wrote on and a blackberry was something you ate. No one had heard of social media, iPhones/iPads, blogs, Twitter, Facebook... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/columns/editorsnote/Editors-Note-Media-Socially_76837.html Wed, 1 Aug 2012 0:00:00 EDT