ATM Modernization

Best of Both Worlds

Here is a question many pilots probably have asked: "Why don’t they make a flight deck display that combines the short-range warning advisories of the traffic alert collision avoidance system [TCAS] with…

Editor's Note

Learning About Electronics Electronically

Although the classroom and instructor are not about to exit aviation training, the traditional methods of instruction are increasingly being supplemented by computer-based training (CBT)–or computer-assisted learning from the student’s point of…

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Predicting the Recovery

It is not a scientific study. Still the survey that Helios Technology conducted at the previous two Maastricht air traffic control (ATC) shows in the Netherlands is interesting, if only to gauge…

ATM Modernization

Feedback

Some Tanker Background In reference to your "Smart Tanker" story (January 2003, page 18), I was hired in 1986 by McDonnell Douglas to promote new tanker avionics systems, among other things. The…

Business & GA

How Fractional Ownership Impacts Avionics Support

Time was when a clear distinction existed between air transport and corporate aircraft operations. The airliners were (and still are) the workhorses that regularly carted passengers and cargo around, while the corporate…

Editor's Note

MLS: Back to the Future?

To many experts in the United States, the microwave landing system (MLS) is past history–one of the many highly touted solutions to pressing aviation problems that, despite their promise, never reached operational…

Editor's Note

Europe’s Energized Mode S Program

Following a decade-long gestation period, Eurocontrol’s ambitious Mode S surveillance program is accelerating. On March 31, coordinated Mode S secondary surveillance radar (SSR) coverage was to commence over France, Germany, Switzerland, the…