ATM Modernization

New Products

Single-Board Computer A new commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) single-board computer (SBC) has been introduced by Vista Controls, a Curtiss-Wright company. The VCP P3A was designed to provide fast access to large amounts of data.…

Business & GA

Perspectives: ADS-B at Embry-Riddle

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University logs 100,000 flight training hours each year at its Daytona Beach, Fla., campus and 50,000 at its Prescott, Ariz., campus. For the nation’s leading aviation educator, safety has always…

Commercial

Streamlined Data Loading at Alaska Air

Data loading is an essential but time-consuming chore on today’s software-intensive aircraft. Every 28 days airlines need to update their navigation databases, for example, and every aircraft computer at one time or…

ATM Modernization

Miami ARTCC: Ground Zero for CPDLC

All eyes in the U.S. data link community are directed toward the Miami air route traffic control center (ARTCC), where Build 1 of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) controller pilot data link…

Editor's Note

New Products

Multihazard Display Ryan International, Columbus, Ohio, offers what it claims is the aviation industry’s first display dedicated solely to presenting hazard information. The color, 3 ATI (air transport indicator) liquid crystal display…

Editor's Note

Protecting Safety-Of-Life Radio Frequencies

Radio frequency spectrum is the lifeblood of wireless communications. Without it, satellites would uselessly orbit the globe, and communications towers, cell phones and radios would fall silent or echo the chaotic noise…

ATM Modernization

Product Focus: Connectors: On to Fiber Optics

When we last discussed connectors in the Product Focus section, in the November 2002 issue (page 46), we reported on the dual standard that the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) New Installations…

Editor's Note

Pilot Protection at Accident Factories

Airports are accident factories, with a high potential for pilots to take off on the wrong runway of two parallel runways, to take off on taxiways, to be on the wrong taxiway,…