ATM ModernizationEurocontrol Promotes Flexible Use of Airspace through ICAO with LARA From left: Dr Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and Frank Brenner, Director General of Eurocontrol. Photo: Eurocontrol [Avionics Today 10-04-2016] Eurocontrol and ICAO have signed an…
Business & GAEmbraer E2 Partners Reveal How They Launched the Aircraft Ahead of Schedule Embraer E2 Jet family, rendering. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Today 10-04-2016] LDRA, a company that specializes in standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis and test tools, and Konatus, LDRA’s engineering partner…
ATM ModernizationFAA Lays Out 15-Year Plans for PBN NAS Navigation Strategy Photo: SITA [Avionics Today 10-04-2016] FAA Administrator Michael Huerta has signed off on the Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) National Airspace System (NAS) Navigation Strategy, the FAA’s Navigation and Landing Branch Manager Donna Creasap…
CommercialAirbus and Indonesia Launch Long-Term Green Aviation Partnership Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, the busiest in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Today 10-03-2016] Airbus and the Indonesian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have launched a long-term partnership to reduce…
CommercialNASA, France Collaborate on Reducing Aircraft Noise Pollution Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, signed an agreement on Sept. 27, 2016, with Bruno Sainjon, president and chief executive officer of the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) to…
CommercialChinese IT Company Implements Flyht’s Real-Time Data on Embraer Aircraft [Avionics Today 10-03-2016] Flyht Aerospace Solutions has entered into an agreement with an unnamed Information Technology (IT) company that implements data solutions for Chinese commercial aviation operators in the People's Republic of…
ATM ModernizationEurope, US Making Progress on Air to Ground Data Comm Harmonization [Avionics Magazine 10-04-2016] Experts working on the harmonization of commercial air-to-ground aircraft data communications for operators flying between the U.S. and Europe presented some of the progress on their latest collaborative research…
ATM ModernizationFAA Renews ATC Coms Contract with Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins center for providing the FAA with ATC communications between the FAA and aircraft flying in U.S. oceanic airspace. Photo: Rockwell Collins [Avionics Today 10-03-2016] The FAA has renewed its Aeronautical…
ConnectivityAvionics for Progress-Gen In September, we hosted our fifth-annual Avionics for NextGen conference, which provided in-depth examples of major progress with the deployment phases of the world’s two largest Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) Air…
ConnectivityCapitalizing on the Advent of Cockpit Connectivity With Wi-Fi in the passenger cabin now commonplace for today’s traveling public, the cockpit represents the next major aircraft domain for IP connectivity to make its mark. From real-time weather updates…