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Safety: Disrupting the Harmony Aloft

The unrestricted use of cellular telephones in flight is fraught with social and technical questions, of which the technical issues may be the more intractable. This is the picture that emerges from…

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Scan

Thales-Sagem Thales and Sagem Defense Security have joined to develop upgrade solutions for Dassault combat aircraft, with the exception of the Mirage 2000 and Rafale. Thales' expertise will be in radars, electronic…

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Special Report: Avoiding NFF

The problem of intermittent failures in aircraft electronic equipment has long plagued operators, who receive questionable components back from avionics shops labeled "NFF" (no-fault-found). NFF occurs when a component that apparently failed…

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Synthetic Vision: Two Perspectives

As PC gamers know, computers can generate scenery that is real enough to draw you into the action. Aircraft software also can create "synthetic" terrain by rendering stored data into a three-dimensional…

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Calendar

September 13-16 Institute of Navigation (ION) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) 2005, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif. Contact ION, phone 703-383-9688, e-mail membership@ion.org or visit www.ion.org. 13-16 Defence Systems and…

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Editor's Note: Resolving NFF

In this issue we unearth the challenges of both isolating the root causes and conceiving solutions for no fault found (NFF) (see story), a complex problem affecting operators, maintenance facilities and original…

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Input/Output: UAVs and the Regulatory Gap

Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are a force to be reckoned with--not just by enemy troops. So despite its reservations, FAA is beginning to act. At a UAV event just before the Paris…

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LPV or RNP: Which Way for Business Aviation

Thales recently won an FAA award for up to 300 ILS systems, to be installed between 2007 and 2013. Many will replace older equipment, but at least 100 systems will provide precision…

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New Products

Data Loader AIM recently introduced its EasyLOAD-615A, which allows avionics developers and engineers to perform target data loader operations over the communications ports on the company's avionics full-duplex Ethernet switch (AFDX)/ARINC 664…