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Perspectives: How Avionics Redefined Rotorcraft Design

In the early days of rotorcraft development, avionics and systems had a limited role in aircraft design. Essentially, the helicopter was an airframe and one or more engines. Early flight control systems…

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Q&A: Matt Zuccaro: Rotorcraft Safety, Katrina and ADS-B

In the aviation menagerie, the helicopter is clearly a different animal. It performs many functions that other air vehicles cannot--for example, landing on offshore oil rigs. Rotorcraft are particularly beneficial during rescue…

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Safety: Electrickery and Nil Redundancy

The flight crew lost nearly all of their instrument displays and used both visual and standby horizons at night for attitude reference until the unexplained electrical failure resolved itself. Then, instead of…

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Scan

First Public RNP Approach On Dec. 20, 2005, FAA demonstrated to the press the first public U.S. required navigation performance (RNP) approach--at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). Alaska Airlines started employing the…

Military

What’s New in 1553?

Mil-Std-1553 remains a dynamic area of avionics, and the technology continues to evolve, embracing packaging and software innovations, faster processors and local area networks, as well as reaching toward truly high-speed implementations.…

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Calendar

February 14-16 ATC Maastricht, MECC, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Contact Ana Mandaric, CMP, phone +44 207 921 8545, e-mail amandaric@cmpinformation.com or visit www.atcmaastricht.com. 20-23 Flight Data Monitoring & FOQA, Short course at Cranfield…

Commercial

Editor’s Note: Militarizing FOQA

An article in this month's issue discusses a subject familiar to readers of Avionics Magazine--but from a very different perspective. We describe the U.S. Department of the Navy's plans to adapt a…

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Ground-Based Augmentation

At A Glance: The U.S. military's ground-based augmentation system (GBAS) program, dubbed Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS, is designed for installation on ships, as well as at ground facilities,…

Business & GA

Military FOQA Next Step in Safety

At A Glance: Long a staple of commercial aviation, flight operations quality assurance is coming to the military, too, as the Pentagon presses for heightened safety and readiness. We focus on the…

Military

Product Focus: What’s New in 1553?

Mil-Std-1553 remains a dynamic area of avionics, and the technology continues to evolve, embracing packaging and software innovations, faster processors and local area networks, as well as reaching toward truly high-speed implementations.…