Business & GAHorizon's Push for RNP Horizon Air, a regional carrier in the northwestern United States, flies in a challenging environment and, therefore, has special needs. It flies into airports in mountainous terrain, and it seeks lower approach…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: A Fundamental Design Weakness Get it down. Get it down. Come on, you’re starting your flare," the captain of the Qantas B747-400 directed the first officer, who was flying the airplane for its landing at Bangkok…
ATM ModernizationAvionics Aftermarket Services: A Buyer's Market New airplane sales are down and opera-tors are focusing laser-like on the bottom line. Bent on reducing costs, airlines want to shift inventory expense and risk to suppliers on the best possible…
Business & GAMultimode Receivers: More Demand, More Capability Multimode recievers (MMRs), the high-integrity, multifunction navigation units installed on many air transport-class airplanes today, are expanding their scope. Driving this expansion are military aviation needs and the evolution of the National…
ATM ModernizationPeople Rockwell Collins: New Officials Rockwell Collins recently named two new vice presidents, Mark Crumbish and Kent Statler. Crumbish, who formerly was with the venture capital support company, Milcom Technologies, is Collins’ new…
Business & GAOver the Top: Flying the Polar Routes It is cold at Eilson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Forty-five degrees below zero cold. It is February 1972, and we are with a KC-135 tanker task force. Our job is…
Business & GAProduct Focus: TCAS Obviously encouraged by the fact that no midair accidents involving commercial aircraft have taken place since traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS) came into widespread use, regulatory agencies are expanding the…
ATM ModernizationNew Products RVR Sensor Vaisala has introduced a new sensor for runway visual range (RVR) applications, the FS11. It uses forward scatter technology, which measures the attenuation of light in the atmosphere by transmitting…