ATM Modernization

ATN: Harmonizing Aero Communications

There was a time when life in aeronautical communications was simple. There was analog voice radio or nothing. But how times have changed. Today we face competing technologies, divergent regional solutions, a…

ATM Modernization

Boeing 787: Integration’s Next Step

Moving beyond current jetliners in the integration and openness of its architecture, Boeing sees the 787 Dreamliner's avionics suite as a major contributor to the economies it promises with the new mid-…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

June 13-19 Paris Air Show, Le Bourget Airport, Paris. Contact Anouck Toussaint, e-mail a.toussaint@salon-du-bourget.fr or visit www.paris-air-show.com. 20-21 Joint International Symposium on Sensors and Systems for Airport Surveillance, offices of Direction Generale…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: More Bizjets Using FANS?

From our Q&A this month we learn that the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) is the first corporate aircraft certified for future air navigation system (FANS) operations. But it no longer is the…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Connectors: Saga Continues

In our August 2004 issue we reported that the saga surrounding the establishment of a fiber optic connector standard "has reached a climatic decision point." It has. But the saga continues. And…

ATM Modernization

Eclipse 500: Implications of Integration for VLJs

It's interesting--indeed, paradoxical--that while some members of the aviation industry will, during the next 12 months, be celebrating the arrival of glass cockpits in the coming very light jets, or VLJs, other…

Business & GA

Editor'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…

Commercial

Getting 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…