Business & GA

Q&A: ARINC’s Advance Into the Business Market

Just about everybody knows that ARINC helps establish avionics standards and provides services to air transport users. Less well known are the company’s services to business aviation–even though more than 2,000 corporate…

Business & GA

New Products

Dual-Band Antennas Two new dual-band antennas, the ComDat Cl 480-1 and 490-1, are now offered by Comant Industries, Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The ComDat Cl 480-1 is an active antenna that operates…

ATM Modernization

People

Aircraft Electronics Association: Award Winners Barry Aylward, co-owner of Kitchener Aero, in Breslau, Ontario, and Mid-Canada Mod Center, in Toronto, has been named the Aircraft Electronics Association’s (AEA’s) Member of the Year.…

Business & GA

Collision Avoidance Squared

One goal of systems integration is to save precious real estate in the cockpit. Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a company jointly owned by L-3 Communications and Thales, has done its…

Business & GA

Product Focus: In-Flight Entertainment

Few systems providers got hit harder financially than the in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry, as a result of 9/11, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, and the worldwide economic slump. When airlines…

Business & GA

Safety: Getting Your Attitude Together

This much can be said with confidence: Attitude instruments do not fail often. But about twice a year their failures do lead to accidents. In instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), the airplane kill-rate…

Business & GA

Scan

RVSM Heats Up Honeywell and West Star Aviation have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification of a system enabling Learjet 35/36 series aircraft to meet the fast-approaching deadline for reduced vertical separation…

Business & GA

System Design: How to Keep the Cockpit Cool

Few working environments impose as many irritating problems as the aircraft cockpit. It is physically cramped but visually open, with as much window space as possible, since the point of being airborne…

Business & GA

Oz: A Revolution in Cockpit Display

Two Florida scientists have developed a unique approach to solving the problem of flight deck information overload, sometimes called "the tyranny of numbers." Their solution is a pilot display concept called OZ.…

Business & GA

UAVs That Swarm

If the command and control (C2) of today’s mammoth unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) seems like a tough problem, consider futuristic, bio-inspired concepts for autonomous UAV systems. Encouraged by studies of insect colony…