Business & GA

Sole Source Dead: Long Live Loran?

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…

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: A Pause For Fresh Thought

As the rush continues to equip U.S. commercial aircraft with anti-missile systems developed for the military, a broader perspective of the threat and how to deal with it is emerging. Given the…

Military

Will Projection Displays Give F-35 an Edge?

Prime contractor Lockheed Martin and avionics provider Rockwell Collins are placing a calculated bet that their new flight deck projection display technology for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will result in…

ATM Modernization

Feedback

Wrestling with the FMC I read your article entitled "Bad Figures, Dangerous Results" (April 2004, page 51). The continuing occurrences of tail strikes due to bad data in the flight management computer…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Portable Terrain Adviser Garmin International, Olathe, Kan., has unveiled the GPSMAP 296, a portable aviation device that outputs topographic maps and terrain advisory alerts on a 480X320-pixel, 256-color, 3.8-inch-diagonal TFT transflective display.…

ATM Modernization

People

Vaughn, Chairman Novatel Inc., based in Calgary, Canada, has announced the appointment of David Vaughn as chairman of the board of directors. Vaughn served as Novatel's president and chief executive officer from…

Business & GA

Perspectives: Standards For UAV Access To The NAS 

While a key mission of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is to promote the capabilities of its membership, AUVSI also is wrestling with thorny regulatory issues regarding the operation…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Pink Slips And Brown Herrings

A new advisory circular, AC 120-80, on in-flight fires rates a pink slip, according to Capt. Ken Adams. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) examiner gives a pink slip to a pilot who…