Business & GAA TAWS for Rotorcraft Terrain awareness warning in every aircraft… Sounds nice. It certainly would enhance safety–which is why Honeywell has developed multiple versions of its enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). Perhaps the latest version,…
ATM ModernizationWAAS: Back in Step After two years of relative obscurity and delay, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) program is gaining renewed prominence, as it approaches for a major milestone. The agency…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: Designing for Space The most difficult avionics design task is making equipment for operation in outer space. The equipment must provide 100 percent reliability under harsh environmental conditions and where repair usually is impossible. While…
Business & GAMaking Flying EASy Dassault Aviation’s "EASy cockpit," destined for the redesigned Falcon 900EX, the Falcon 2000EX and the Falcon 7X, embodies fundamental changes in the avionics interface. The leading concept behind the new flight deck…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Words of Faint Optimism The year 2001 is now behind us and virtually everyone in the civil aviation industry is glad it is. Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, civil aviation faced its darkest hour. There was…
ATM ModernizationPilots or Controllers: Who's Liable in the Free Flight Environment? Free Flight will not worsen the legal position of the pilot nor relieve air traffic controllers of all liability. Rather, this emerging era of flight is likely to introduce new areas of…
ATM ModernizationPeople Vista Controls: Parks, Sales Director Vista Controls, a Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems company, has promoted Chuck Parks to director of sales. Previously, he was the company’s national sales manager. Vista Controls, Santa Clarita,…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: ATC Switches The candidate products have been submitted and evaluated. Four manufacturing teams anxiously await the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) downselect, scheduled for late April or early May 2002. What the agency will select…