CommercialFrontier Airlines In-flight Experience Director Highlights Weight Savings Benefits From Not Featuring IFEC Frontier Airlines is in the midst of fleet refresh delivery schedule for 175 new Airbus A320neo family aircraft, including the A321XLR on track to join its fleet in 2024, however whether or…
CommercialEASA Expects Certification of First Artificial Intelligence for Aircraft Systems by 2025 The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its “Artificial Intelligence Roadmap” in anticipation of the first certification for the use of AI in aircraft systems coming in 2025. EASA published…
CommercialPODCAST: Valour’s Daniel Welch Talks Global Airline IFEC Equipage Rates On a regional basis, airlines with hubs in North America have the highest rate of in-service airplanes featuring in-flight Internet in the world, according to the latest available data from Valour Consultancy’s…
Air TaxiCollins Aerospace Targets 2022 for Next Generation Flight Control Computer A flight control computer currently under development at Collins Aerospace will have 20 times the processing power of the avionics maker’s current generation and will eventually enable autonomous flight, Darryl Woods, general…
CommercialSingapore Airlines SVP of Engineering Talks Avionics, Technology Fleet Investment Singapore Airlines has completed retrofitting its fleet with capabilities necessary to comply with existing Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) tracking requirements and is working on upgrades that will bring its…
ATM ModernizationRaytheon Sees MARS, STARS as Enablers to App-based Future for U.S. Air Traffic Raytheon seeks to transition the technology used by air traffic controllers to track aircraft in U.S. terminal airspace to a more software-based system that can be continuously upgraded, using application updates instead…
CommercialAirbus ATTOL Project Lead Describes Technology Behind Vision-based A350 Takeoff Using a combination of image recognition technology and flight control computer modifications, Airbus successfully performed its first ever fully automatic vision-based takeoff with an A350-1000 in December. Avionics International recently caught up…
Business & GAEmbraer Phenom 300E Gets Upgraded Avionics, Engine Thrust Increase Embraer has added a series of new avionics and interior cabin upgrades to its Phenom 300E light jet, while also confirming an increase in speed observed during a recent flight test of…