Business & GA

Editor's Note: Safe Flying

It’s a tough job being a pilot, and if industry reports and forecasts are to be believed, it’s about to get tougher. There’s growing demand for experienced and trained pilots to satisfy…

ATM Modernization

People

Greg Roberts Curtiss-Wright Controls named Greg Roberts vice president of its Avionics & Electronics division. Roberts joins Curtiss-Wright from Northrop Grumman, Defense and Security business, U.K., where he was managing director responsible…

Commercial

Perspectives: CMHP Considerations

Coming soon, all airlines will use the Internet and FAA’s enhanced, secure-connection Common Message Handling Protocol (CMHP) to access FAA for all National Airspace System (NAS) subsystems, including the National Airspace Data…

ATM Modernization

Knowing the Glass

The July crash of an Asiana Boeing 777 in San Francisco has reignited the call within the industry for better avionics training for pilots Should professional pilots get additional training for advanced…

Business & GA

New Products

In-Flight Voice, Text Aircell added voice capabilities to its Gogo Biz in-flight internet service. The company said it can offer internet and voice capabilities from a single system, which can reduce equipment…

ATM Modernization

Business Aviation and NextGen

Honeywell’s Primus Epic-based EASy II cockpit, which was certified in May on Dassault Falcon 2000S, Falcon 2000LXS and 7X, includes NextGen and SESAR-compatible capabilities, including ADS-B and CPDLC. NextGen in the United…

Business & GA

Educating Technicians

Aviation Maintenance Science students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. A number of schools teach avionics maintenance, but until fairly recently, there has been no standard, portable certificate attesting to a graduate’s or industry-taught…

Commercial

System Design: The Rest of the 787 Story

A NTSB photo of the burned auxiliary power unit (APU) battery from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 that caught fire in January. When I finished the first Avionics article on the Boeing…