Business & GAProduct Focus: Flight Management Systems There are rules for how to use these things. I see a lot of use of the word "intuitive" applied to FMS products on the market today. But what is intuitive to…
Business & GASafety in Avionics: Let There Be Light The fatal Oct. 31 crash of a Singapore Airlines jet while taking off at night in bad weather raises a basic issue of cockpit visibility, and whether it’s time to equip pilots…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Bombardier Chooses ISIS Smiths Industries Aerospace is to supply its integrated standby instrument system (ISIS) as basic fit for the Learjet Models 60, 45 and 31A. Deliveries to Bombardier Aerospace began in…
Business & GAPerspectives: The Case for Cockpit Video Recorders James E. Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), acknowledges that video recording in the cockpit is a controversial topic. To the many pilots opposed to the idea, video cameras…