Business & GA

Cover Story: SVS Virtual Sight Lines

Humans are visual creatures — if forced to give up one of our five senses, not many of us would choose to be blind. Living in a dark or blurry world is…

Military

Beating Ballistic Threats

Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) and small arms fire remain deadly, plentiful threats to helicopters forced to fly close to concealed enemies. Unlike Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) countered by missile warning receivers,…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Electronic Standby Instrument L-3 Avionics Systems, Grand Rapids, Mich., introduced the Trilogy ESI-1000 Electronic Standby Instrument, a solid-state integrated standby system created for Part 23 aircraft. L-3 said the system is designed…

Commercial

Deterministic Ethernet for Avionics

The AEEC has been documenting methods for transferring digital information between avionics boxes since the 1960s. However, it wasn’t until the implementation of ARINC 429 as a reliable, high-integrity digital databus that…

Commercial

Product Focus: RTOS

At 35,000 feet, the market for real-time operating systems (RTOS) is embracing the concept of virtualization as a way to wring more functionality out of avionics systems. In that respect, aviation is…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: ADS-B In and Out

On July 16, 1999, The New York Times carried Matt Wald’s detailed article about UPS cargo jets making night landings at Wilmington, Ohio, using "ADS-B In," with a cockpit display showing other…

Business & GA

Airbus Selects Honeywell's IntuVue Radar

Airbus selected Honeywell’s IntuVue 3-D Advanced Weather Radar on A320s, A330s and A340s in a contract valued at $300 million over the life of the program. Honeywell’s IntuVue weather radar is already…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins in EGNOS Demonstrations

Rockwell Collins announced Tuesday it recently participated in the successful completion of flight demonstrations to fly European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV) approaches in Europe. The…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: Flying Machines

You get to ride in some interesting flying machines on this job — always a treat for a guy who mainly flies a desk equipped with Apple Macintosh avionics. Since my last…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

  Coast Guard Trades Speed For Capability With New Ocean Sentry The U.S. Coast Guard is trading speed for capability with its new HC-144A Ocean Sentry medium range surveillance aircraft, which enters…