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May 7, 2008
CHC Taps Avionics Trainer
CHC Helicopter has hired Worldwide Helicopter Solutions to provide on-site avionics system training at its bases in Australia, The Netherlands...

May 1, 2008
Satellite Tracking: Guardian Angels
Helicopter pilots are used to being the ones that provide help from above. More and more, they are getting help from on high — from birds in space. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has 4,000 mi of transmission lines and a network of water...

May 1, 2008
Aircraft in Alaska Receive ADS-B Upgrade For Chelton EFIS Cockpits
PRODUCTS | AVIONICS Nearly 90 aircraft in southeastern Alaska are having their Chelton electronic flight instrumentation systems (EFIS) upgraded to incorporate automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) capabilities. Chelton began field installations...

May 1, 2008
Bristow Flies Super Puma with TCAS 2
PRODUCTS | AVIONICS Bristow Group’s Eastern Hemisphere unit last month began operating a Eurocopter Super Puma fitted with an operational Rockwell Collins’ Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System 2 (TCAS 2). The aircraft is serving Royal...

April 30, 2008
Vector Gets Bell 206 "Glass" STC
Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services-North America reports it has received a supplemental type certificate from Transport Canada for installation of a...

April 14, 2008
Sikorsky Nears First Flight of Fly-by-Wire UH-60M
Sikorsky Aircraft expects to make the first flight of a fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk by early May. That milestone on the latest upgrade of the Black Hawk for the U.S. Army could...

April 8, 2008
Aviation Today Webinar Focuses on Rotorcraft
The state of the rotorcraft industry, the prospects for new business development, and the potential impact of a U.S. recession and global economic downturn are collectively the focus of an Aviation Today...

April 2, 2008
Chelton Installs ADS-B-Capable Software in Alaska
Chelton Flight Systems reports it has begun field installation of its synthetic-vision glass-cockpit software capable of integrating and displaying Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast...

April 1, 2008
Rotor & Wing: Rotorcraft Report: People
Royal Air Force Flight Lt. Michelle Goodman on March 7 became the first woman to be awarded the U.K. Distinguished Flying Cross. She was honored for flying her Incident Reaction Team Merlin into "an extremely dangerous area of Basra City" in Iraq on...

April 1, 2008
Aviation Today: How Long Can The Party Last?
Igor Sikorsky, the godfather of the modern helicopter, perhaps summed it up best: "Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle." When I served as editor-in-chief of Rotor & Wing during the mid-to-late 1990s, I was always...

April 1, 2008
Coming Up
May 2008: Air Med on the European Continent — We examine in depth the factors spurring (and limiting) development of air medical operations on the Continent. Offshore Operations — As the offshore industry gathers in Houston for its annual Offshore...

April 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: HUMS Vendor Gains Greater Acceptance
PRODUCTS | AVIONICS Intelligent Automation Corp. is making headway in persuading helicopter operators of the value of its aircraft monitoring and diagnostics systems. Much of Poway, Calif.-based IAC’s success has come with military operators. Its health...

April 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: FAA to Start ADS-B Testing in the Gulf of Mexico
PRODUCTS | AVIONICS The FAA plans to begin testing the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) communications, navigation, and surveillance system this year. The tests are be carried out are on a system of transponders placed on oil rigs in the...

April 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Hickok Smoothes Path to IFR Approaches
SERVICES When faced with IFR approaches, there are very few options available to emergency medical helicopter pilots. Among those is a software-based area navigation tool for helicopters offered by Hickok and Associates. Recently tested in Bern, Switzerland...