Editor's Note

RF Connectors: SSMA, SMA, ETC.

In my last column (July 2003), we looked at the design issues associated with popular N, BNC and TNC radio frequency (RF) coax connectors. This month, we will look at the other…

Business & GA

Europe’s Answer: UAVs in Controlled Airspace

Europe’s experience of operating unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) within its controlled airspace is considerable. Predators, Hunters and other UAVs operating during the conflicts in Kosovo and Bosnia, for example, were successfully sequenced…

Editor's Note

Calendar

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

Airbus A400M

Airbus Military’s A400M airlifter program – finally launched after years of waiting, wrangling and political drama – will go head to head with the C-130J and stretched C-130J-30 for export orders. Will…

Business & GA

Bizjet Upgrades: Mandates Fill Shops

Despite a lingering recession causing layoffs by business aircraft manufacturers earlier this year, the corporate jet avionics upgrade business–spurred by upcoming government mandates–remains surprisingly strong. The mandates for terrain avoidance warning systems…

ATM Modernization

The Chicken and the Egg

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) decision in late May to shelve plans that would expand its controller pilot data link communications (CPDLC) coverage beyond the airspace served by the Miami air route…

ATM Modernization

How an Irish Carrier Seeks More Green

Dublin-based Ryanair is about to join the assembly of airlines employing operational flight data monitoring to enhance operations safety, proficiency and cost savings. However, the Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) is taking a…