Business & GA

Product Focus: Say Hello to FRED

Data in flight recorders is stored in crash-protected memory. But when a recorder is recovered from an accident scene, it can take weeks to decipher what the data means-to translate it into…

Business & GA

Regional Jet Cockpits-Now and in the Future

Describing the cockpit avionics in today's regional jets can be either straightforward or complex. It is straightforward if one deals with the dominant airframes from Bombardier and Embraer, where standardization across the…

Commercial

Safety: Bad Figures, Dangerous Results

The fact that a flight management computer (FMC) would accept decision, rotate and climb speeds based on a takeoff weight that was too low by 100 metric tons raises an obvious question:…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Firsts on the Embraer 170 Honeywell has announced two "firsts," following the Brazilian authorities' and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's type certification of the avionics manufacturer's Primus Epic integrated avionics and two-axis fly-by-wire…

ATM Modernization

Avionics Technicians: The Training, The Demand

Where can one receive electronics/avionics training? What are the prospects after graduation? Here's a snapshot of the technician training landscape. Despite a slow recovery in the aviation industry, the demand for avionics…

Business & GA

System Design: What to Listen for in Digital Audio

We live in an analog universe, where every sound and color has infinite complexity, depth and resolution� Every sense–hearing, taste, smell, etc.–is analog in nature. As humans, we don't have the ability…

Business & GA

UAVs: Out of Uniform

When Greg Holland began working on commercial applications for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in 1993, "there was absolutely no one–and now there is quite a growing field of people with various systems,…

ATM Modernization

Longer Legs for VHF

A drawback to standard VHF radio communication is that it is limited in range to little more than line of sight. Unlike HF and lower frequencies, VHF's transmitted waves propagate minimally around…