ATM ModernizationScan Diamond DA40 Approval The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Garmin International a supplemental type certificate for Diamond Aircraft Co.'s DA40 Diamond Star. Diamond is now authorized to deliver DA40s with Garmin's G1000…
ATM ModernizationADS-B’s Global Advance Earlier this year, in Anchorage, Alaska, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored international conference on advanced aviation technologies heard speakers from the United States, Australia, Sweden and Russia. They described advancements under way…
Editor's NoteCalendar July 15-16 Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE), Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. Contact Kathleen M. Blouin, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), phone 202-783-9364, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.abace.aero 19-25…
MilitaryNew Missions For The Hawkeye The U.S. Navy wants to expand the role of its Hawkeye aircraft to include coastal area surveillance and theater air and missile defense (TAMD). This is no small order for an airplane…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: ANSPs’ Desire To Cooperate Cooperation is “not a sentiment — it is an economic necessity.” So said Charles Steinmetz, the inventor of alternating current. In that vein members of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO)…
ATM ModernizationLink 2000+: CPDLC System Steams Ahead While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC) program in Miami cools on the proverbial back burner, Eurocontrol’s CPDLC program steams ahead with Link 2000+. Some 25…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Single-Board Computer General Micro Systems, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has announced the Spider, which it claims to be the world’s smallest single-board computer (SBC). Measuring 2.8 by 1.9 inches (7.1 by 4.8 cm),…
Business & GAProduct Focus: ARINC 653 and RTOS If real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the heart of safety-critical, air transport avionics, then ARINC 653 is at the heart’s core. RTOS conformance to the low-level capabilities described in the specification allows…