ATM Modernization Editor's Note: Airlines as Jugglers What will be in future cockpits? We hope we answered that question in part in our Outlook coverage in this issue. However, for added perspective on this topic, from the user community,…
Business & GA Fast Moving IFE Matsushita has increased its market lead, Sony is for sale, and live television is making its air transport debut. These and other developments are occurring rapidly in the fast-paced, highly competitive in-flight…
Business & GA Safety in Avionics: Knowing Where You Are –– Vertically Despite the hundreds of data elements displayed in a modern cockpit, one piece of information is missing: the position of the airplane with respect to its intended vertical path. Pilots have to…
Business & GA Solid Growth Free Flight will impact the avionics market. Airlines want to be ready for Free Flight from day one," states Michel Merluzeau, senior analyst for the research organization Frost & Sullivan, which recently…
ATM Modernization Editor's Note: Congress' Compliant With RTCA Congress, a wag once said, is "a body of men brought together to vote on unpopular laws." That may be a harsh definition of the U.S. Congress, but sometimes, one can only…
Commercial Avionics 99 Highlights CFIT, TCAS, ADS-B and, of course, Free Flight were some of the more widely used buzzwords heard at the Oct. 26-28 Avionics 99 conference at Bellevue, Wash. Manufacturers are engineering the means…
Editor's Note Piloting the Engineer Engineers and pilots view cockpit avionics from very different perspectives. Whereas an engineer may view his product as an enhancement to the operational environment, the pilot may see that product as yet…
ATM Modernization Safety in Avionics: Not Your Father's Loran Just as the value of real estate has been based on the word "location" repeated three times, the commendable safety record of the airline industry has been built on redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.…