ATM Modernization

Product 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 Modernization

NASA’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 & GA

Scan

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 & GA

System 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 & GA

Oz: 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 & GA

UAVs 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…

Editor's Note

Calendar

October 7-9 56th Annual NBAA, Orlando/Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Contact the National Business Aviation Association, phone 202-737-4484, fax 202-478-6885 or e-mail dhanson@nbaa.org. 12-16 NASA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, The Crowne…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: When Aircraft Take Over

Honeywell caused a stir recently when it announced its development of a system that would automatically take control of an aircraft if the pilots fail, or refuse, to prevent a crash. Called…