Business & GAHelmet Mounted Displays: Adding Night Vision Day/night helmet mounted displays promise breakthrough abilities for night fighting in the areas of head comfort and safety, cockpit organization and situational awareness. Two manufacturers and two projects are leading the way…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Lessons Learned From Las Vegas Performance-based area navigation (RNAV) procedures allow more efficient and cost-effective use of the National Airspace System (NAS) by freeing aircraft from dependence on ground-based navaids. But these improvements don't come into being…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Flight Displays, Digital Map System Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium has announced a line of flight and mission displays, the CHDD-2000 family. The company also has partnered with EuroAvionics of Hausen, Germany, to…
Business & GAPeople Jim Smisek Jim Smisek is the new certification director and Designated Alteration Station (DAS) administrator for S-TEC Corp., a digital autopilot and flight control systems provider in Mineral Wells, Texas. He is…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: Joint Symposium, AEEC Evolution For the second year running, Avionics Magazine and AEEC (the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee) will co-host a symposium to highlight topics that are likely to require standardization in the coming years. This…
Business & GAProduct Focus: SAR Antennas: Increased Abilities, Smaller Size Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulates the performance of a larger aperture radar to create high-resolution, photograph-quality images. But now, thanks to more compact antennas, miniaturized digital and radio frequency (RF) electronics, and…
ATM ModernizationScan Push To ADS-B ACSS plans to begin development flight tests of its SafeRoute automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) software in October 2006, using a company King Air and a Convair from the FAA…
CommercialSafety: Switched-On Pilots The 1977 accident at Tenerife hangs over the aviation industry like a pall, and preventing a repeat is the goal. Recall the specifics: at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, two Boeing 747s…