Business & GANew Products Low Fluoride Wires and Cables Tyco Electronics, Harrisburg, Pa., has introduced its Raychem Spec 55 series of low fluoride aerospace wire and cable. The company says it is the first low fluoride…
ATM ModernizationPeople Avionics Technicians Banyan Air Service at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport has appointed John DiMattei as avionics engineer and Patrick Daniel as a technician installing avionics systems and components. DiMattei is responsible for…
ATM ModernizationScan Honeywell Boots APEX Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace has announced upgrades to the APEX integrated avionics package planned for the Grob SPn, a light jet for business aviation. Honeywell says the improvements will reduce…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Bill Strauss: Academic Look at Interference Electromagnetic interference (EMI) from portable electronic devices (PEDs) is a growing concern, given the omnipresence of cell phones. RTCA's Special Committee 202 (SC-202) is addressing the issue in preparation for technology being…
ATM ModernizationSafety: An Emergency and No Guidance The EasyJet B737-300 crew was nonplussed but coped well with myriad electrical failures that prompted them to divert from their planned flight from Nice, France, to Luton, UK, landing instead at Lyons,…
ATM ModernizationScan Electronic Flight Bag Virgin Atlantic Airways has picked Chicago-based navAero's t?BagC22 Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB) as part of a project to equip its fleet of Airbus A340s and Boeing 747s.…
ATM ModernizationSecuring ACARS: Data Link in the Post-9/11 Environment At A Glance: ACARS message security is under scrutiny in the post-9/11 environment. This story covers: Airline efforts to develop a standard approach to ACARS security; and The parallel push from the…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Switch Evolution: Impact of Computers The role of switches is changing in the era of glass cockpits. Today's military and commercial flight decks feature fewer hard-wired, single-function switches and more "soft" switching via pull-down menus and "point-and-click"…