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ATM Modernization

Perspectives: New Era For a New Loran

In the last several years, while the United States migrated away from a sole-means GPS approach to critical infrastructure operations, Loran has changed, as well. It has rapidly evolved into a modern…

Commercial

Safety: Terrorists on Camera

Message to terrorists: Try to hijack an airplane, and you'll be on "candid camera." Video imagery of events in the cockpit or cabin could be transmitted to the ground using the existing…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Diamond DA40 Approval The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Garmin International a supplemental type certificate for Diamond Aircraft Co.'s DA40 Diamond Star. Diamond is now authorized to deliver DA40s with Garmin's G1000…

ATM Modernization

ADS-B’s Global Advance

Earlier this year, in Anchorage, Alaska, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored international conference on advanced aviation technologies heard speakers from the United States, Australia, Sweden and Russia. They described advancements under way…

Editor's Note

Calendar

July 15-16 Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE), Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. Contact Kathleen M. Blouin, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), phone 202-783-9364, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.abace.aero 19-25…

Military

New Missions For The Hawkeye

The U.S. Navy wants to expand the role of its Hawkeye aircraft to include coastal area surveillance and theater air and missile defense (TAMD). This is no small order for an airplane…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: ANSPs’ Desire To Cooperate

Cooperation is “not a sentiment — it is an economic necessity.” So said Charles Steinmetz, the inventor of alternating current. In that vein members of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO)…

ATM Modernization

Link 2000+: CPDLC System Steams Ahead

While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC) program in Miami cools on the proverbial back burner, Eurocontrol’s CPDLC program steams ahead with Link 2000+. Some 25…