Business & GA

Product Focus: Cockpit Displays: LCDs vs. CRTs

The aviation industry is moving from bulky, power-hungry cathode ray tubes (CRTs) to lighter, more reliable liquid crystal displays (LCDs). New aircraft types and versions have adopted LCDs. But a huge pool…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Tracking System Glitches

The use of a procedure in aviation similar to "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" as a last-ditch stratagem to resuscitate a dead personal computer has one big difference: one’s personal computer does not have to reboot…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Targeting/Nav Pods Northrop Grumman has announced the integration of its LITENING Extended Range (ER) precision targeting system onto U.S. Air Force F-15E fighter aircraft. The LITENING ER system is a self-contained, multisensor…

Business & GA

FAA’s STARS: Ready to Shine Bright?

Exactly on time, and in a low key, anticlimactic launch, the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) made its initial operating capability (IOC) debut into the National Airspace System (NAS) early in…

ATM Modernization

People

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.,…