Commercial

Safety: Maintenance Snafu with Static Ports

Maintenance blunders keep catching pilots by surprise. Fortunately, the savvy and experienced pilots of a United Parcel Service (UPS) Boeing 747-200 freighter were able to retrieve the situation during a maintenance-related check…

Business & GA

MiniJets: Maxi Avionics Performance

Neither the local area augmentation system (LAAS) nor microwave landing system (MLS—for European operators) is specified for the minijets. Full, fail-passive automatic flight control systems will be supported by advanced, dual attitude…

Editor's Note

People

New Officials Bernhard Gerwert has been selected to head the EADS Defence Electronics business unit in Ulm, Germany. He succeeds Johann Heitzmann, who has been appointed head of EADS Military Aircraft business…

ATM Modernization

Products

Navigation Receiver New digital signal processor (DSP) -based LORAN receivers available from Locus Inc., Madison, Wis., provide simultaneous tracking of up to 40 LORAN transmitters with overall signal-to-noise improvement of at least…