Commercial

Boeing Selects CMC Electronics EFB

Boeing selected CMC Electronics’ 10.4-inch Class 2 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for its Next-Generation 737s and Boeing Business Jets, the companies said Monday. The installations will be available on production and retrofit…

Military

Raven UAV Receives Dutch Military Approval

AeroVironment, based in Monrovia, Calif., said the Military Aviation Authority of the Netherlands (MLA-NLD) has issued a Military Type Certificate (MTC) for its Raven B NLD MUAS, the first such certificate issued in the Netherlands in…

Commercial

ASDE-X Operational at Miami Airport

Miami International Airport is now operating with Sensis Corp.'s Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X), Sensis said. Miami is the 20th airport to receive ASDE-X through FAA's ASDE-X program that will…

Commercial

navAero EFB Awarded STC for B737-NG

The tBagC22 Electronic Flight Bag from navAero, of Chicago, was awarded an enhanced supplmemental type certificate (STC) for the B737-NGs. The new STC provides for Ethernet cross-connectivity of the two navAero EFB CPU modules…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Flight Computer Avidyne, of Lincoln, Mass., introduced an attitude-based DFC100 Digital Flight Control System, which was specifically designed for installation in Cirrus SR20s and SR22s with Avidyne’s dual Air Data and Attitude…

Commercial

Perspectives: Advancing AIXM 

FAA, Eurocontrol, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and others, with the assistance of companies such as FedEx and Lufthansa, are developing the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM),…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: A Corner Turned

I couldn’t help but feel patriotic at the Sept. 29 roll-out of the Gulfstream G650 in Savannah, Ga. There we stood, a gaggle of journalists on a makeshift platform, waiting just inside…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

FAA Leadership Supportive Of NextGen Implementation Task Force Report FAA leadership complimented the work of the RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force, describing its final report as an industry consensus document that…