Commercial

Editor’s Note: ARINC IA Meetings

The AMC maintenance forum and the AEEC engineers consummated a merger of sorts with the first collocation of their annual meetings in recent times, an event held March 30 through April 2…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Airlines Air Laundry, Resolve Problems At Collocated AMC, AEEC Meetings The insider’s perspective on some of the latest developments in the airline industry was on display during the AMC and AEEC annual…

ATM Modernization

People

Sensis Corp. Appointments Sensis Corp., of Syracuse, N.Y., named Marc Viggiano chief operating officer. Viggiano was most recently senior vice president and chief strategy officer. In his new role, Viggiano is responsible…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

May 3-6 Army Aviation Association of America Annual Convention, Nashville, Tenn. Contact Quad A, phone 203-268-2450 or visit http://quad-a.org 4-6 Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor,…

Commercial

The Regional View

The volatile oil market and financial meltdown have wreaked havoc on the regional aviation market. Tumbling traffic numbers and rising operating costs have forced U.S. regional carriers to follow the lead of…

Business & GA

Avionics Roadmap

Over the past few months, there has been growing interest in the development of improvements in the National Airspace System (NAS) with great emphasis on the near- and mid-term time frames extending…

Commercial

CAN Bus in Aviation

Controller Area Network (CAN) data bus is a serial communications protocol that supports distributed real-time control with a high level of security. Introduced in the 1980s by Robert Bosch GmbH, the CAN…

Commercial

Air Austral Installs Panasonic IFE System

Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., installed its eX2 in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on two Boeing 777-300ERs for Air Austral, La Réunion, France. The eX2-equipped aircraft will enter service this month, the company…