Business & GA

Beechcraft Brings Mission Enhancements to King Air 350

[Avionics Magazine 12-7-2016] Beechcraft announced new mission enhancement upgrades for its King Air 350HW and King Air 350ER turboprop aircraft at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) conference.…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins to Upgrade Flight Planning Technology

[Avionics Magazine 12-7-2016] Rockwell Collins is bringing new regional sand and dust storm forecasting information to its ArincDirect flight-planning platform. The aerospace and defense manufacturer made the announcement about the upgrade to…

Commercial

Spire Releases CubeSat-Based Flight Tracking Solution

[Avionics Magazine 12-06-2016] Spire is introducing a space-based global aircraft tracking service called Spire AirSafe, which will capture and provide the location of all Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped planes. Spire said…

Military

LDRA, Richland Partner to Standardize Embedded Avionics Software

[Avionics Magazine 12-6-2016] Embedded computing solutions provider Richland Technologies (RTL), and software standards compliance company LDRA have announced a new close-working relationship resulting in standard methodologies across multiple industries. The cooperative relationship…

ATM Modernization

Yoshimura Appointed New ICAO Air Navigation President

[Avionics Magazine 12-5-2016] The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has unanimously appointed Commissioner Hajime Yoshimura to a one-year term as President of the ICAO Air Navigation Commission (ANC), the…