Business & GAPerspectives: An Ounce Of Prevention Obsolescence problems continue to increase ownership costs, affecting the avionics systems and the test equipment used by military and civil operators, as well as their suppliers. It was a frequent topic of…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: Proposed Recorder Rules: Raising Flags The boxes that hold the data used to decipher aircraft accidents would have to change under newly proposed flight recorder rules. Key elements of the plan issued Feb. 28 include: longer voice…
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…
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