CommercialDaedalean is Developing a Neural Network for Future Air Taxi Avionics Daedalean, a Zürich, Switzerland-based startup, has amassed $12 million in funding toward the development of the aviation industry’s first autopilot system to feature an advanced form of artificial intelligence (AI) known as…
CommercialEuropean Airlines to Meet June 2020 ADS-B Deadline, With Some Exceptions The number of aircraft operated by European airlines in compliance with EASA’s June 7, 2020 ADS-B Out mandate has doubled to more than 40 percent since October 2018, according to a…
CommercialPODCAST: How Air Canada is Using A New Data Analytics Platform On the latest episode of the Global Connected Aircraft podcast, I spoke with Air Canada's Shaul Shalev and Sisense CEO Amir Orad about how airlines can use data analytics to improve the…
CommercialFAA Officials Refute Criticism of Certification Process for 737 MAX Top FAA officials told U.S. senators during a hearing Wednesday that their oversight of the process for certifying the Boeing 737 MAX was as stringent as it is for every other…
ATM ModernizationFAA Chooses Enhanced ADS-C Over Space-Based ADS-B for Oceanic Airspace A July report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found it would be significantly more cost-effective for the FAA to use a faster version of the existing automatic dependent surveillance-contract…
CommercialEFB Users Realize Airliner IT, App Growth at 2019 SAE Forum The commercial airline industry’s first uploading of information from an electronic flight bag (EFB) to an aircraft’s flight management system (FMS) was demonstrated at the 18th EFB Users Forum conference held in…
CommercialAirlines Are Starting to Dedicate Small IT Teams to EFBs At the end of June, I attended SAE International’s EFB Users Forum for the first time, and I must say that I gained a deeper understanding of what it actually takes to…
Commercial737 MAX, Air Taxis and EFBs Top Avionics Articles in July We write a multitude of articles over the course of a month, and July was pretty action-packed so we wanted to give you a brief review of our most read articles for…