ATM ModernizationQ&A: Mike Hewitt: Business Jets Flying with FANS On May 24, 2004, the first business jet using future air navigation system (FANS) technology crossed the Atlantic and communicated with air traffic controllers via digital messaging. The aircraft was a Boeing…
CommercialSafety: Perils of Single-Point Failures This is an example of a single-point failure that could have been prevented in design. The case involves a de Havilland DHC-8 that was on a passenger flight from Horn Island to…
ATM ModernizationScan ATC Institute The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has partnered with the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) to form an industry institute that will support the development of a state-of-the-art air traffic control…
MilitaryPerspectives: Terrain Avoidance: When COTS Won’t Do In the late 1980s the U.S. Navy decided to develop its own ground proximity warning system to prevent flight into terrain. Eventually, the service designed its own terrain awareness warning system, too.…