ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: The Drumbeat Grows Louder

The drumbeat for more efficient air traffic management (ATM) and use of airspace grows louder and increasingly zealous. The final report from the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry…

ATM Modernization

Feedback

Lost from the Start Thanks for your editorial and list of acronyms in the December 2002 Avionics Magazine (page 27). As a young engineer in 1967, I attended a meeting at The…

Editor's Note

New Products

IP Cores Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Condor Engineering now offers its CORE-1553 and CORE-MMSI intellectual property (IP) cores for programmable logic devices. CORE-1553 is a downloadable encoder/decoder/processing core that can provide one or…

ATM Modernization

People

Korry Electronics Co.: Houston, President Frank Houston has been named president of Seattle-based Korry Electronics, succeeding Alan Cornell, who is now head of European operations for Korry’s parent company, Esterline Technologies. Houston…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: Accelerating Free Flight

Imagine never again experiencing a flight delay. Imagine flying from point A to point B via the most direct route possible. Impossible? Not really. We all know that the technology to enable…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Inmarsat Swift64 Expands

Inmarsat’s 11-month-old Swift64 high-speed data service, based on the Inmarsat-3 constellation, has carved out a niche in government and corporate aviation. As of December, more than 100 terminals apparently had been sold,…

Business & GA

Chips That Think: RF Design

In the 1980s radio frequency (RF) engineers developed microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits that revolutionized the reliability and controllability of RF systems, while significantly reducing their size and cost. But now a…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Safety vs. Entertainment

There is a saying in the nation’s capital that "money is policy." Which is to say, ignore all the declaratory political rhetoric and look to the hard numbers in the government budget.…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

New Washington Area TRACON A new terminal radar approach control (TRACON) facility that consolidates five TRACONs in the Washington-Baltimore area began operation in late 2002. The Potomac Consolidated TRACON in Warrenton, Va.,…

Business & GA

Precision and Flexibility, Too

Precision, accuracy, stability – these are what a pilot wants in a precision instrument approach. The instrument landing system (ILS) has provided these qualities for years; however, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…