ATM ModernizationShow Me the Benefit Europe has the world’s most crowded and fragmented air traffic environment. In an effort to improve air traffic flow, government agencies in Europe often require installation of certain avionics. Are they all…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Integration is the Future I was disappointed in your Outlook 2000 (January) issue of Avionics Magazine, which purported to give the reader "a heads up on upcoming trends in the avionics field."…
ATM ModernizationPeople Smiths Industries: Ferrie, Head of Aerospace Smiths Industries has designated John Ferrie as the new head of Smiths Industries Aerospace, following Norman Barber’s retirement at the end of the current financial year,…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Modular Measuring System Kaman Instrumentation Operations, a unit of Kaman Aerospace Corp., introduced its Series 8000 modular measuring system for noncontact positioning sensing. The product performs at a resolution of at least…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: The Fallacies of Free Flight More, not less, top-down control of the national airspace system (NAS) is seen as the solution to the rising tide of flight delays. What does that say about the concept of Free…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan L-3, Sextant Buy TCAS from Honeywell As part of the post-merger plan to divest the overlapping products of Honeywell and AlliedSignal, Honeywell agreed in March to sell its traffic alert and collision…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Lab Magic Ever so often, a design or test project gets bogged down because some aspect of the lab work hits a brick wall. The method for getting past such a problem is not…
CommercialBoeing's 767-400ER: Ethernet Technology Takes Wing Fittingly, delivery of the 21st century’s first new jetliner coincides with the pioneering application of an Ethernet data transmission network to host flight-critical information. The first Boeing 767-400ER (extended range) derivative, scheduled…
Business & GAEntertainment in Bizjets Airborne entertainment systems that include live television, movies via digital video disc (DVD) players, and "surround" sound systems–once considered the domain of a Sultan’s private aircraft–now appear fairly routinely on higher-end corporate…
ATM ModernizationSimplifying Databus Analysis Mil-Std-1553 databus analysis tools, used to observe bus traffic, identify problems, or verify bus performance, are daily becoming more capable, as well as more complex. While analysis, in the narrow sense of…