ATM ModernizationPeople Seznec, Senior VP Reynald Seznec has been named senior vice president of the Thales Air Traffic Management (ATM) business group. He joined the company’s Sonar and Anti-Submarine Division in 1990 and rose…
Business & GAPerspectives: Roadmap for Required Navigation The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released on July 22, 2003, a "Roadmap for Performance-Based Navigation." This roadmap will allow the development of air traffic procedures pilots can use…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: Voice Switches: What’s Next? Producing voice switches isn’t rocket science, but air traffic controllers can’t do without them. Aside from en route equipment, which has more time left before replacement becomes necessary, many switches in the…
ATM ModernizationNASA’s Solution to Runway Incursion A system to help prevent runway incursions is being integrated into a synthetic vision system (SVS) to provide perhaps the ultimate in situational awareness to air transport pilots as they land, take…
Business & GAScan RVSM Heats Up Honeywell and West Star Aviation have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification of a system enabling Learjet 35/36 series aircraft to meet the fast-approaching deadline for reduced vertical separation…
Business & GASystem Design: How to Keep the Cockpit Cool Few working environments impose as many irritating problems as the aircraft cockpit. It is physically cramped but visually open, with as much window space as possible, since the point of being airborne…
Business & GAOz: A Revolution in Cockpit Display Two Florida scientists have developed a unique approach to solving the problem of flight deck information overload, sometimes called "the tyranny of numbers." Their solution is a pilot display concept called OZ.…
Business & GAUAVs That Swarm If the command and control (C2) of today’s mammoth unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) seems like a tough problem, consider futuristic, bio-inspired concepts for autonomous UAV systems. Encouraged by studies of insect colony…