CommercialEditor’s Note: Militarizing FOQA An article in this month's issue discusses a subject familiar to readers of Avionics Magazine--but from a very different perspective. We describe the U.S. Department of the Navy's plans to adapt a…
ATM ModernizationGround-Based Augmentation At A Glance: The U.S. military's ground-based augmentation system (GBAS) program, dubbed Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS, is designed for installation on ships, as well as at ground facilities,…
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 ModernizationEditor'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…
ATM ModernizationCarriers 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…
ATM ModernizationNew 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…
ATM ModernizationAvionics 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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