CommercialSafety: Perils of a Lone Positioning Source A tiny but significant window into the sequence of a near-catastrophe at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, came from a passenger's naive question during a later British Mediterranean Airways flight to Beirut. By coincidence,…
ATM ModernizationScan U.S. Galileo Counter-Offer Worried about the impact of Europe's coming Galileo satnav system on the U.S. military's prized but not yet fielded M-Code for GPS, the U.S. government has proposed an alternative…
CommercialSynthetic Vision: No Longer Futuristic Little more than a decade ago, Gordon Pratt, president of Chelton Flight Systems, was asked why there were no new electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) products and why manufacturers of new-design aircraft…