ATM Modernization

FAA Program Puts Controllers in Cockpit

FAA on Monday re-established its Flight Deck Training program, allowing air traffic controllers to ride in aircraft cockpit with commercial pilots and giving them a greater understanding of pilots' experience and workload. …

Editor's Note

Calendar

August 16-19 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Unmanned Systems North America, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Visit www.auvsi.org. 16-21 MAKS 2011 International Aviation & Space Salon, Zhukovsky, Moscow Region,…

ATM Modernization

Industry Leader Profiles

In this special Industry Leader Profiles section, Avionics Magazine highlights leading suppliers of products and services to the worldwide aerospace electronics sector. Many of these companies provide components across the spectrum, including…

Embedded Avionics

Frequentis to Provide ATC Services in Netherlands Antilles

The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) selected Frequentis to replace its existing voice communications system (VCS) for the Curacao area control center (ACC). The ACC currently uses an earlier Frequentis VCS…

Editor's Note

‘Sunny’ Days in Paris

The champagne corks have been popped, billion-dollar deals signed and aircraft orders have been finalized. Another Paris Air Show in the books. And after all of that, the aviation industry is celebrating…

Editor's Note

Industry Scan

AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Grizzle Tapped for ATO FAA’s Chief Counsel David Grizzle has been tapped to lead the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Administrator Randy Babbitt announced July 7. Grizzle will replace…

Commercial

Sharing the Sky

The payoff of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for military, law enforcement and scientific missions is constrained by the airspace they can share with manned aircraft. As of May 2011, one Broad Area…

Business & GA

Q&A: Honeywell Defense and Space

After a decade of fighting overseas wars, the U.S. defense industry is undergoing some downsizing. Pentagon officials have declared the need for belt-tightening as it draws down troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.…