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Business & GA

Collision Avoidance Squared

One goal of systems integration is to save precious real estate in the cockpit. Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a company jointly owned by L-3 Communications and Thales, has done its…

Business & GA

Product Focus: In-Flight Entertainment

Few systems providers got hit harder financially than the in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry, as a result of 9/11, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, and the worldwide economic slump. When airlines…

Business & GA

Safety: Getting Your Attitude Together

This much can be said with confidence: Attitude instruments do not fail often. But about twice a year their failures do lead to accidents. In instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), the airplane kill-rate…

ATM Modernization

People

Honeywell: Karlsson, Vice President Torbjorn Karlsson has been named Honeywell's vice president-commercial aerospace for the Asia Pacific region. He is based in Singapore. Karlsson previously was head of business development for Cathay…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: Tracking Down Turbulence

Doppler windshear radar systems on board airliners may soon be used to predict turbulence associated with stormy weather as well, thanks to research done by NASA's Aviation Safety and Security Program (AvSSP).…

ATM Modernization

WAAS-Capable GPS Receivers

Now that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has commissioned its wide area augmentation system (WAAS), GPS navigation will offer a level of integrity supporting precision approaches. Already two avionics manufacturers have placed…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: RCAT-Tool to Achieve GATM

To fly the fastest, most efficient routes worldwide, air traffic control (ATC) organizations are mandating that aircraft be equipped with sophisticated avionics. Consequently, the U.S. Air Force must update its aircraft through…

Editor's Note

Safety: Faulty Maintenance, Faulty Airmanship

"The aircraft departed Stansted carrying the same fault with which it had arrived," the accident report concluded. In that sentence lies the tale of how one flight crew successfully coped with a…