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WAEA: New Officials The World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) has elected Sue Luxem as president for a one-year term. Luxem is product manager, in-flight media, for American Airlines. Other new WAEA officials…

Commercial

Product Focus: Aircraft Recorders in Transition

In anticipation of new regulations, standards bodies are preparing for aircraft recorders that store not only voice and data but also digital data link messages. As aircraft/air traffic control voice communications evolve…

ATM Modernization

RNP Revs Up

The Federal aviation Administration (FAA) has sharpened its focus on publicly supported, required navigation performance (RNP) procedures and formed an RNP program office to speed the process along. FAA pledged in July…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

CPDLC Off and Running Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC), the government-industry program to reduce frequency congestion and increase communications clarity and reliability, became a reality on Oct. 7, 2002, at 7:38 a.m.,…

Business & GA

Air France Industries: Ca Marche Bien

The air transport market may be in a slump, but this maintenance, repair and overhaul firm, whose parent is France’s premier airline, is growing and modernizing. Despite turbulence in air transport and…

Business & GA

Editor's Note: The Coveted Business Traveler

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) show was particularly interesting this year, not because it indicated strong growth in corporate aviation (it didn’t), nor because it spotlighted more new technology than usual.…

ATM Modernization

Feedback

The Continuous Altitude Rule The July 1 midair collision over Germany, which you commented on in the September issue (Editor’s Note, page 6), could have been avoided with a "continuous altitude rule,"…

Business & GA

Merlin's Magic

When I started flying in the early 1980s, my best resource for up-to-date weather information was someone at the other end of my VHF communications radio–a person on the ground. But in…