CommercialEurocontrol Leads New SESAR Effort for UTM SESAR is gearing up to kick off a drone project in January. The SESAR Horizon 2020 PODIUM project (which stands for “Single European Sky ATM Research Horizon 2020 Proving Operations of Drones…
ConnectivityVistaJet Sees Growth in BizJet 'Shared Economy' Model VistaJet is increasing its U.S.-based fleet of Global and Challenger business jets by 50% after seeing demand surge for its service in the third quarter. During the third quarter of 2017, VistaJet…
Business & GAMicrosoft, Boeing Talk Artificial Intelligence at NBAA A Microsoft global industry solutions manager spoke during an educational session during the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA) convention in Las Vegas and alerted the audience to the fact that artificial intelligence…
ATM ModernizationDJI Has a Drone ID Product that Addresses Some Operator Privacy Concerns DJI’s new product can identify and monitor airborne unmanned aircraft systems. The company said its AeroScope uses existing technology and addresses safety, security and privacy concerns. "As drones have become an everyday…
RegulationEASA Opens Regional Office in Singapore EASA’s regional office in Singapore is officially open. The European regulator said this is its fourth regional office; others are in Washington, D.C., Montreal and Beijing. “We [have] cooperate[d] with CAAS on…
Embedded AvionicsUniversal Avionics InSight Now has Jeppesen Data Jeppesen has agreed to provide its airport mapping database to Universal Avionics’ new InSight Display System, the Boeing company said. Announced during the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, the…
Business & GAHuerta Gives Final NBAA-BACE Speech as FAA Admin As Michael Huerta’s term as FAA administrator draws to a close, he addressed the National Business Aviation Association as such one last time during the Business Aviation Convention & Exposition in Las…
CommercialNASA Gives Aurora Another Year for D8 X-Plane Development Future Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences is set to continue developing the subsonic D8 X-Plane (XD8), Aurora said. NASA has awarded the firm with a 12-month contract. The XD8 program aims to…
ConnectivityHoneywell CNX-900 Upgrade Enables Wireless Database Loading The upgrade for Honeywell’s CNX-900 router allows business aviation operators to use wireless database loading, the manufacturer said. Aircraft equipped with Honeywell Primus Epic can, with the update, remotely stage flight navigation…
ATM Modernization10 More Aireon ADS-B Payloads are Now in Orbit Aireon has launched and deployed the third batch of 10 Iridium Next satellites with ADS-B payloads, the company said. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in…