Business & GAEditor's Note: Avionics Syndrome: An EFB Inhibitor? If an electrical device is operated in the cockpit, it must be complex, certified and expensive, right? Well, not necessarily. And the inability to think beyond that bias probably has inhibited the…
CommercialGetting a Handle on COTS Obsolescence In the mid-1990s the U.S. military began to use more commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS, products. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) hoped that COTS would slash the cost and reduce the time…
Business & GANew Products Virtual Tools Sporty's Pilot Shop, Batavia, Ohio, now offers Virtual Airspace and Virtual Airport computer-based tutorials. The CD-ROM programs use computer animation to turn 2D information into 3D, fly-through videos. Visit www.sportys.com.…
Business & GAPeople Eggleton Luxell Technologies Inc., Toronto, Ontario, has appointed Art Eggleton to its board of directors. Eggleton has had a 30-year career in Canadian government, serving as Toronto's mayor for 11 years, as…
CommercialPerspectives: Conductive Adhesive Avionics Challenges Electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) materials offer the electronics industry an alternative to the tin-lead solder now used for connecting display driver chips, memory chips and other devices to circuit boards. But before…
MilitaryQ&A: Lt. Cmdr. Dylan Schmorrow: Empathetic Avionics: Beyond Interactivity The ultimate aircraft's avionics should be able to sense the pilot's mental state in real time and automatically adapt to the pilot's needs. This is the vision of the U.S. Defense Advanced…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Software Tool Set Racal Instruments Inc. has announced newWave, a tool set to help implement and use the new Signal Definition Standard, IEEE 1641. It allows signal definition exports into ATML, C++…
CommercialNorth and Latin America FAA lists more than 1,300 repair stations throughout the world. Unable to list all of the repair stations, we nevertheless include some of the key providers of avionics and instrument support. We…