Embedded Avionics

Software

DO-178C: What’s Next? Five and a half years down the road of revising the rules for writing safety-critical code — and three years past the anticipated deadline — RTCA in December approved…

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People

John Hinton Aircell, based in Broomfield, Colo., named John Hinton regional sales manager. He is responsible for assisting business aircraft operators and aftermarket installation facilities with their in-flight connectivity needs in the…

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Calendar

September 10-13 Autotestcon 2012, Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, Calif. Visit http://autotestcon.com. 11-16 Berlin Air Show, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany. Visit www.ila-berlin.de. 17-20 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Expo, Long Beach Convention & Entertainment…

Commercial

Perspectives

Power Bus Testing Most electrical and electronic products deployed on aircraft must meet strict requirements with respect to power bus anomalies, such as brown outs, surges, sags, interruptions and transients. To verify…

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Editor's note: 2015: UAS Odyssey

The unmanned aviation industry is poised for some rather explosive growth in the next few years, if the discussions on the floor of the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) are…

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Industry Scan

COMMERCIAL GE Buys Austin Digital GE Aviation acquired Austin Digital, a privately owned, Texas-based supplier of flight operations data analysis, which is designed to “strengthen GE’s services offerings with integrated solutions for…

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Routing RNP

Alaska Airlines, which pioneered RNP, has been flying RNP approaches into 27 airports. In 2011, these approaches saved the airline 210,000 gallon of fuel and $19 million. Performance-based navigation (PBN), a key…

Commercial

What Will Follow GPS?

Alaska Airlines, which pioneered RNP, has been flying RNP approaches into 27 airports. In 2011, these approaches saved the airline 210,000 gallon of fuel and $19 million. It may seem strange, almost…