Business & GA

Product Focus: Pilatus’ Big Switch

Based on its experience of fielding more than 250 aircraft by mid-1999, Swiss-based Pilatus Aircraft decided, in 2000, to redesign the cockpit of its single-engine PC-12 turboprop. The redesign included moving some…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Disrupting the Harmony Aloft

The unrestricted use of cellular telephones in flight is fraught with social and technical questions, of which the technical issues may be the more intractable. This is the picture that emerges from…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Thales-Sagem Thales and Sagem Defense Security have joined to develop upgrade solutions for Dassault combat aircraft, with the exception of the Mirage 2000 and Rafale. Thales' expertise will be in radars, electronic…

Business & GA

Special Report: Avoiding NFF

The problem of intermittent failures in aircraft electronic equipment has long plagued operators, who receive questionable components back from avionics shops labeled "NFF" (no-fault-found). NFF occurs when a component that apparently failed…

ATM Modernization

Synthetic Vision: Two Perspectives

As PC gamers know, computers can generate scenery that is real enough to draw you into the action. Aircraft software also can create "synthetic" terrain by rendering stored data into a three-dimensional…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

September 13-16 Institute of Navigation (ION) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) 2005, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif. Contact ION, phone 703-383-9688, e-mail membership@ion.org or visit www.ion.org. 13-16 Defence Systems and…

Business & GA

Editor's Note: Resolving NFF

In this issue we unearth the challenges of both isolating the root causes and conceiving solutions for no fault found (NFF) (see story), a complex problem affecting operators, maintenance facilities and original…