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Calendar

January 18-20 ION National Technical Meeting 2006, the Hyatt Regency Monterey, Monterey, Calif. Contact Institute of Navigation, phone 703-383-9688 or visit www.ion.org. 23-25 System Engineering for Project Managers, a short course offered…

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Avionics Development: Playing by the New Rules

In the prehistoric days of avionics manufacturing--say, 10 years ago--suppliers worked under a build-to-print model. Airframe manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier gave them a system control document that spelled out…

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Editor's Note: Synthetic Vision: Time for Standards

Synthetic vision (SV), the database-driven presentation of terrain outside the cockpit, is gaining momentum. Avionics magazine has described development work by Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, BAE Systems (with partner Nav3D) and Boeing. We…

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Carriers Advance RNP As Standards Evolve

The desire to free aviation from dependence on fixed routes defined by ground-based navaids--a concept known as free flight--has produced technologies that permit more direct flights from point to point and a…

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New Products

Snythetic + Enhanced Vision Kollsman plans to introduce an Enhanced Synthetic Vision System (ESViS) product, combining infrared (IR) inputs and database-derived terrain imagery, as early as 2007. The idea is to provide…

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Avionics Outlook 2006: Rising Expectations

Optimism--ranging from cautious to near euphoric, depending on the market sector--is blossoming in the civil aviation marketplace. Despite escalating oil prices, ongoing instability in the Middle East, and a slight slowdown in…

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Editor’s Note: Talk of Change And a Goodbye

ARINC's Oishi set the tone for this year's Airline Elecronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) meeting when, in his welcoming remarks in the event's pocket guide, he noted the many changes taking place in…

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Empathetic Avionics: The Pilot as an Avionics System

Pilots of the future may activate decision support aids with their brains rather than their fingers. Like an avionics system, they may communicate with the aircraft electrically via brain signals. Impossible as…