CommercialSafety in Avionics: Watching Your (Aircraft) Weight In an industry where safety is based on the twin pillars of precise procedures and accurate measurements, it seems strange that "informed guesstimates" are used to determine an aircraft’s weight and balance.…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Caravan Fitted for IFR J.A. Air Center, West Chicago, Ill., recently completed a new Cessna 208B Caravan with a state-of-the-art avionics suite approved for instrument flight rules. The aircraft is fitted with…
CommercialAvionics System Design: Designing with PC104 Technology As people try and port various kinds of intelligent displays and systems into aircraft, especially for special-purpose data applications, they feel considerable pressure to use popular technology from the embedded microprocessor world–in…
ATM ModernizationAn ATC Upgrade of Olympian Size Athens, city of antiquity and tourism, has a new airport–one fit for the 21st century, and for the Olympic Games that the city will host in 2004. Due to be inaugurated this…
Business & GABarcoView's ISIS, Goddess of Light? Air traffic controllers, spending their days staring at screens, know the importance of clear, easy-to-read images. Screen makers know that, too, and seek to offer better clarity in their products–which is why…
CommercialAvionics System Design: Learning from the Florida Recount Last year, the world was treated to an amazing demonstration of unintended design consequences, packaged as the 2000 U.S. presidential election. I know, I know, you’ve heard enough about the election and…
Business & GACabin Management at the Press of a Button Ask a question about cabin management systems and the reply is often another question: What do you mean by cabin management? The term has become part of the aviation world’s lexicon since…
MilitaryThe U.S. Army's Virtual Cockpit Virtual reality (VR) is not a new concept; it has been used to design and develop new aircraft for some time. What is new, however, is the "virtual cockpit," and it is…