ATM Modernization People Pro Star Aviation: New Officials Don White has been appointed president of Pro Star Aviation, an avionics maintenance and repair facility based at the Manchester,…
Business & GA Safety in Avionics: Breaking the Electrical Arcing Cycle Imagine a cockpit without the phalanxes of button-type circuit breakers. The breakers have been distributed to where they are needed throughout the aircraft. In fact,…
ATM Modernization ATC Modernization: Reaching New Peaks in Switzerland Swiss air traffic control (ATC) has become high-profile–largely due to the tragic July 1, 2002, midair collision between a Russian Tu 154M airliner and a…
Business & GA Minidrones: Near Term Tested in Kosovo and Afghanistan, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are here to stay. But behemoths like Global Hawk and Predator dominate, despite their cost, complex…
Business & GA Simulation: More Than a Training Tool Everyone knows flight simulators are used to train pilots. That is the core function of these $14- to $20-million machines. Less well known is that…
Business & GA Avionics System Design: Saving the Pilot: Part I Recently I had to investigate a small plane crash, and it struck me how easy it is for things to go wrong in the cockpit.…