After more than five years of working group meetings, research and reports, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally announced in early May its intent to issue the long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking…
Electronic flight bags (EFBs) are quickly becoming a fixture in today's business jet cockpits. Small wonder: lightweight laptop or notebook computer-based EFBs can replace heavy paper manuals, charts and check lists. Purpose-built,…
June 7-11 13th International Flight Inspection Symposium, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec. Contact Nav Canada, phone 613-563-3938 or visit www.navcanada.ca/ifis2004. 14-18 Eurosatory 2004, Paris-Nord-Villepinte Exhibition Center, Paris. For more information, call…
Hope that a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) could constitute a single navigational source so accurate and reliable that no other source would be needed, continues to fade. The Volpe National Transportation…
You can't keep a good man down, the saying goes—and the same appears to be true with a good technology. Hit with budget constraints, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has had to…
May 10-13 Smart Sensor Systems 2004, a course taught in English at Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. Contact the Sensors Web Portal, phone, in North America, 416-233-4546 or in Europe,…
Maintenance and Missile Defense I enjoyed reading your Editor’s Note in the February 2004 issue titled “No Overnight Missile Defense.” And I understand the issues involved in protecting civilian airliners. A point…
RECENTLY, SOME FRIENDS SENT ME AN SOS e-mail about interference that was being detected from a little automotive microprocessor device they had been shipping for years with no problems. They couldn’t detect…