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…

Business & GA

Cabin Security

On Oct. 27, 2003, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) clarified its directive that all UK airlines install a means of visually monitoring the area outside of the flight deck. In a…

Editor's Note

Calendar

August 12-13 Software Risk Managment, a short course offered by the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). Contact Engineering, Information Systems and Technical Management Short Courses, phone 310-825-3344 or visit www.uclaextension.edu/shortcourses. 16-19 AIAA…

Editor's Note

Connectors

Companies Aeroflite Enterprises sales@aeroflite.com Air Electro www.airelectro.com Airtechnics www.airtechnics.com American Connector Corp www.amccfl.com Ametek Aerospace www.ametek.com AMP Inc www.amp.com Amphenol Aerospace www.amphenol-aerospace.com Cadillac Cables 866-757-0997 Cleeve Technology Inc www.cleevetech.com Data Bus Products…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: How Secure? How Isolated?

How isolated should pilots be while in the cockpit? Put another way, how aware should pilots be of activities in the cabin area behind them? This has been a key question ever…

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)…