ATM Modernization

WAAS Accelerates

Nearly a year since commissioning the wide area augmentation system (WAAS) with initial capability, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is marching ahead to maximize the availability of precision-like approach capability. The satellite-based…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Wire & Cable: The Long-Awaited NPRM

After more than five years of working group meetings, research and reports, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally announced in early May its intent to issue the long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking…

Business & GA

Choosing An EFB For Your Bizjet

Electronic flight bags (EFBs) are quickly becoming a fixture in today's business jet cockpits. Small wonder: lightweight laptop or notebook computer-based EFBs can replace heavy paper manuals, charts and check lists. Purpose-built,…

Editor's Note

Calendar

June 7-11 13th International Flight Inspection Symposium, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec. Contact Nav Canada, phone 613-563-3938 or visit www.navcanada.ca/ifis2004. 14-18 Eurosatory 2004, Paris-Nord-Villepinte Exhibition Center, Paris. For more information, call…

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…