Business & GA Safety in Avionics: Knowing Where You Are –– Vertically Despite the hundreds of data elements displayed in a modern cockpit, one piece of information is missing: the position of the airplane with respect to…
ATM Modernization Avionics System Design: Potential Perils of PEDS The issue of PED (personal electronic device) interference with onboard avionics systems becomes more complex and contradictory as one digs deeper into prior documents, conflicting…
Military Civil Market in Europe As in the United States, the two very promising markets in Europe are corporate/executive transport and regional airline—but perhaps for different reasons. While a booming…
ATM Modernization Editor's Note: Congress' Compliant With RTCA Congress, a wag once said, is "a body of men brought together to vote on unpopular laws." That may be a harsh definition of the…
Commercial Avionics 99 Highlights CFIT, TCAS, ADS-B and, of course, Free Flight were some of the more widely used buzzwords heard at the Oct. 26-28 Avionics 99 conference at…
Editor's Note Piloting the Engineer Engineers and pilots view cockpit avionics from very different perspectives. Whereas an engineer may view his product as an enhancement to the operational environment, the…