Business & GAMilitary FOQA Next Step in Safety At A Glance: Long a staple of commercial aviation, flight operations quality assurance is coming to the military, too, as the Pentagon presses for heightened safety and readiness. We focus on the…
MilitaryProduct Focus: What’s New in 1553? Mil-Std-1553 remains a dynamic area of avionics, and the technology continues to evolve, embracing packaging and software innovations, faster processors and local area networks, as well as reaching toward truly high-speed implementations.…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Web-Based Flight Tracking ADS and Satamatics, UK and U.S. satcom companies, have launched a low-overhead flight following and messaging service called SAT 111. Based on Inmarsat's satellite network, SAT 111 is being…
CommercialPeople Charles Keegan Former vice president-operations planning for FAA, Charles Keegan, has joined Raytheon Co. as director of strategic development, airspace management and homeland security (AMHS). He reports to Andrew Zogg, AMHS vice…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: How Avionics Redefined Rotorcraft Design In the early days of rotorcraft development, avionics and systems had a limited role in aircraft design. Essentially, the helicopter was an airframe and one or more engines. Early flight control systems…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Matt Zuccaro: Rotorcraft Safety, Katrina and ADS-B In the aviation menagerie, the helicopter is clearly a different animal. It performs many functions that other air vehicles cannot--for example, landing on offshore oil rigs. Rotorcraft are particularly beneficial during rescue…
ATM ModernizationPeople Roy Robertson The Airline Avionics Institute (AAI) has awarded the 2005 Volare Award in Avionics Manufacturer to Roy Robertson, principal systems engineer at Rockwell Collins, for his work on the WXR-2100 multiscan…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: Software Radio: The Bright Side Readers of Avionics Magazine are aware of the challenges posed by software defined radio (SDR)--especially the wideband, frequency-agile variety envisioned by military researchers. If not carefully handled, it could make life more…