Editor's NoteEditor's Note: FAA and New Funding Realities The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is facing a situation to which it is not accustomed. President George W. Bush submitted on Feb. 2 a $2.39-trillion budget for FY2005. But despite its gargantuan…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Keep the Proper Perspective I certainly applaud anyone's efforts to make flying safer. However, I think it is also important to keep things in proper perspective. In the article "The More Complex…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Digital Recorder Heim Data Systems, Belmar, N.J., a provider of data acquisition equipment, recently introduced its D Series digital recorders with Ethernet signal interface. D Series comprises two models: the D20f, with…
ATM ModernizationPeople New Officials Rockwell Collins Government Systems has named Walter "Woody" Hogle as vice president and general manager, Integrated Systems, and Ron Hornish as vice president and general manager, Sensor Systems. Hogle comes…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Cockpit Switches Pilots no doubt are oblivious to the effort that goes into the making of a lowly cockpit switch. But considerable human factors expertise is required to design a switch's shape, size, position…
ATM ModernizationFBW for the S-92 While offshore support operator Petroleum Helicopters Inc. (PHI) takes delivery this month of the first production Sikorsky S-92 at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas, engineers at BAE Systems' Johnson City, N.Y., facility are…
Business & GASafety: From Typo to Tailstrike Incorrect weight and speed data can be potentially deadly, especially when the airplane's computer accepts erroneous information without an error check–rather like a word processor without a spell checker. What a difference…
ATM ModernizationScan Rebuilding Iraqi ATC A team of Raytheon ATM officials traveled to Iraq in late January, responding to an initial $10.5-million contract the company won to rebuild the air traffic control (ATC) facilities…