Editor's Note

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September 8-12 University of Kansas Aerospace Short Courses: "Aviation Weather Hazards," Seattle; "Digital Flight Control Systems: Analysis and Design," San Diego; "Flight Test Principles and Practices," San Diego; "Fundamental Avionics," San Diego;…

Editor's Note

Avionics Magazine’s Customer Support Guide

Ever want to make a purchase or inquiry or schedule a service, but didn’t know whom to contact? We suspect you have, which is why we have compiled the following listing. It…

Commercial

Editor's Note: An Ongoing Rivalry

The Airbus-vs.-Boeing rivalry appears to be the ongoing prime focus at major air shows. It is a bit reminiscent of the Ford-vs.-Chevy dispute long debated by young American car lovers until Japanese…

Commercial

Part 1: EFBs: Shifting Into High Gear

Whether they are simple laptops or fully installed and certified devices, computers for pilot reference and calculations appear destined to enter aircraft cockpits. What follows are recent developments that support the inevitability…

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…