Business & GA Avionics System Design: Designing for Space The most difficult avionics design task is making equipment for operation in outer space. The equipment must provide 100 percent reliability under harsh environmental conditions…
Business & GA Making Flying EASy Dassault Aviation’s "EASy cockpit," destined for the redesigned Falcon 900EX, the Falcon 2000EX and the Falcon 7X, embodies fundamental changes in the avionics interface. The…
ATM Modernization Editor's Note: Words of Faint Optimism The year 2001 is now behind us and virtually everyone in the civil aviation industry is glad it is. Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, civil…
ATM Modernization Pilots or Controllers: Who's Liable in the Free Flight Environment? Free Flight will not worsen the legal position of the pilot nor relieve air traffic controllers of all liability. Rather, this emerging era of flight…
ATM Modernization People Vista Controls: Parks, Sales Director Vista Controls, a Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems company, has promoted Chuck Parks to director of sales. Previously, he was the company’s…
ATM Modernization Product Focus: ATC Switches The candidate products have been submitted and evaluated. Four manufacturing teams anxiously await the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) downselect, scheduled for late April or early…
ATM Modernization New Products Data Acquisition System Gould Instrument Systems, Valley View, Ohio, has introduced a data acquisition system that enables the synchronization of CANbus data frames, GPS position/time…
ATM Modernization RVSM in Europe: How It Was Developed By now, the aircraft that operate in Europe’s upper airspace should be flying in an environment that promises 20 percent greater air traffic capacity, a…