Business & GAFAA to Consider Relaxing In-Flight Rules on Electronics FAA's rules regulating the use of personal electronic devices (PED) on commercial aircraft are expected to change by 2014, as a federal advisory panel meets this week to complete its recommendations for…
Business & GAFAA Issues STC for Q400 Electronic Flight Bag FAA has issued Supplemental Type Certification for the navAero tablet electronic flight bag (EFB) system on the Bombardier DHC-8-400 Series aircraft. (navAero tablet EFB with UAID. Photo, courtesy of navAero.)…
Embedded AvionicsDOD Issues Avionics, Radar Contracts to Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin has secured Department of Defense (DOD) contracts totaling $165.7 million to provide radar systems and mission avionics for a fleet of U.S. and foreign military MH-60R Sikorsky Seahawk helicopters. …
CommercialRetired F-16 Jet Completes First Converted Unmanned Flight The U.S. Air Force began demonstrating the next generation of air combat training and testing aircraft last week, completing the first flight of a converted F-16 jet with no pilot in the…
ATM ModernizationFAA: NextGen Faces Challenges From Sequester FAA Administrator Michael Huerta on Friday told industry and government officials the fiscal uncertainty due to sequestration poses a threat to the agency's multibillion-dollar NextGen program. Speaking at the annual public…
CommercialNorthrop Grumman Working on Triton Radar System Northrop Grumman is flight testing a radar system that will provide its Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with 360-degree views of ocean and coastal regions. (Triton UAS. Photo, courtesy of…
CommercialFAA Requiring Inspections of Honeywell ELTs FAA on Tuesday issued a new airworthiness directive (AD) requiring airlines to inspect more all aircraft equipped with Honeywell emergency locator transmitters (ELT). The directive requires inspections of Boeing, McDonnell Douglas,…
ATM ModernizationIncidents of Airplanes Flying Too Close Together Doubled in 2012 The number of incidents involving aircraft flying too close to each other within the National Airspace System (NAS) doubled to 4,394 in 2012, according to an air traffic safety report issued by…
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