ATM Modernization WAAS: Back in Step After two years of relative obscurity and delay, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) program is gaining renewed prominence, as it…
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 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…