MilitaryThe Emerging World of JTRS This spring, possibly this month, the U.S. armed forces will enter uncharted territory. If all goes as planned, the Army will award the first chunk of a program with an ambitious end…
ATM ModernizationPeople ITCN Inc.: New Officials ITCN Inc., manufacturer of test equipment and software development tools for embedded systems, recently announced two promotions and three new officials. The Miamisburg, Ohio-based company promoted Justin Upper…
MilitaryProduct Focus: Mission Data Recorders Defining a mission data recorder (MDR) isn’t easy. How, for example, does an MDR differ from other recording devices on an aircraft? When asked to define an MDR, Bruce McEwen, Smiths Aerospace’s…
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…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Data Acquisition System Gould Instrument Systems, Valley View, Ohio, has introduced a data acquisition system that enables the synchronization of CANbus data frames, GPS position/time and 96 channels of traditional analog inputs.…
ATM ModernizationRVSM in Europe: How It Was Developed By now, the aircraft that operate in Europe’s upper airspace should be flying in an environment that promises 20 percent greater air traffic capacity, a reduction in commercial flight delays and enhanced…