Commercial

Streamlined Data Loading at Alaska Air

Data loading is an essential but time-consuming chore on today’s software-intensive aircraft. Every 28 days airlines need to update their navigation databases, for example, and every aircraft computer at one time or…

ATM Modernization

Miami ARTCC: Ground Zero for CPDLC

All eyes in the U.S. data link community are directed toward the Miami air route traffic control center (ARTCC), where Build 1 of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) controller pilot data link…

Editor's Note

New Products

Multihazard Display Ryan International, Columbus, Ohio, offers what it claims is the aviation industry’s first display dedicated solely to presenting hazard information. The color, 3 ATI (air transport indicator) liquid crystal display…

Editor's Note

Protecting Safety-Of-Life Radio Frequencies

Radio frequency spectrum is the lifeblood of wireless communications. Without it, satellites would uselessly orbit the globe, and communications towers, cell phones and radios would fall silent or echo the chaotic noise…

ATM Modernization

Product Focus: Connectors: On to Fiber Optics

When we last discussed connectors in the Product Focus section, in the November 2002 issue (page 46), we reported on the dual standard that the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) New Installations…

Editor's Note

Pilot Protection at Accident Factories

Airports are accident factories, with a high potential for pilots to take off on the wrong runway of two parallel runways, to take off on taxiways, to be on the wrong taxiway,…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Pilatus Display Accord Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. has signed on Astronautics Corp. of America for long-term support of the Swiss airframer’s PC-7 and PC-9 aircraft. Astronautics will provide both the 6-by-8-inch and 5…

Editor's Note

Calendar

July 15-17 Unmanned Systems 2003, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Md. Contact the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), phone 703-920-2720, fax 703-920-2889, or visit www.auvis.org. 29-Aug. 4 AirVenture–Oshkosh 2003, Oshkosh, Wis.…

Editor's Note

People

BAE Systems: New Officials Jeffrey Cook recently was named vice president and chief technology officer for the Information & Electronic Systems Integration (IESI) sector of BAE Systems North America. He joined BAE…

Editor's Note

Close Look at RF Connectors

Avionics systems designers face a wide range of radio frequency (RF) connector choices. Each has important operational implications. Since high-frequency applications aggravate failure mechanisms unique to these connectors, understanding the devices’ strengths…