Business & GA

Autonomous Flight Management: A Third Way

Pilots who now can choose to fly under visual or instrument flight rules (VFR or IFR) may someday have a third option: autonomous flight rules, or AFR. Using flight plans and aircraft…

Editor's Note

Calendar

October 12-14 NBAA 57th Annual Meeting and Convention, Las Vegas Conference Center, Las Vegas, Nev. Contact National Business Aviation Association, phone 202-783-9000, e-mail info@nbaa.org. 12-14 Night Vision 2004, Hotel Ibis, London. Contact…

ATM Modernization

Cape Verde: Modernized ATM in the Mid-Atlantic

Three hundred and twelve miles (500 km) off the bulge of western Africa lies a group of volcanic islands that were once a vital stepping stone for piston-engine airliners crossing the Atlantic…

Business & GA

Editor's Note: Cell Phones, Social Issues

"So my girlfriend tells me that he's, like, so cute, and I freak out because he's standing, like, right next to me, and I don't know what to do, so I, go…

Commercial

Safety: Dysfunctional Doors

The biggest piece of avionics-related equipment to be installed recently in transport-category aircraft isn't on the instrument panel in front of the pilots. It's behind them: the hardened, electrically locked cockpit doors…

ATM Modernization

Feedback

New Perspective of Lead-Free I read with interest the September Editor's Note on lead-free avionics (page 6) and the Safety column in the same issue (page 55) on tin whiskers. In the…

Business & GA

Integrated Avionics: Plug & Play

The cursor control devices, pull-down menus and point-and-click controls in today's bizjet cockpits remind us of PCs. Under the hood, in a corporate-owned airplane's processing cabinets, the similarities persist, with integrated architectures…

ATM Modernization

New Products

TopDeck Expands Thales Avionics is positioning its TopDeck integrated avionics suite for the helicopter market. Built around an advanced glass cockpit, the latest TopDeck package meets all civil and military helicopter requirements…