Business & GAProduct 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 & GASafety: 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 & GAScan 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 & GASystem 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…