Business & GAAvionics System Design: Designing with LEDs Incandescent lamps have almost vanished from many new avionics designs. Now high-efficiency light emitting diodes (LEDs), especially in white, have become inexpensive and readily available. LEDs are widely used for backlighting pushbuttons,…
ATM ModernizationADS-B for Australia's Outback If you think development activity of the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) takes place only in the United States, think again. There is, in fact, an ADS-B program being launched on the opposite…
Business & GATackling Turbulence Turbulence, the often violent and irregular motion of air currents, is an unavoidable flight hazard. But the day may soon arrive when turbulence no longer takes air crews by surprise. And this…
ATM ModernizationAvionics History: 1976: What a Year for Avionics THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, as we learned in school, is America's great watershed. Rain falling to its west ends up, eventually, in the Pacific, while that falling to the East feeds the Atlantic…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: P25 Radios: What's in Stock? AS WAS REPORTED LAST month, the technical scope of Project 25 (P25) radio systems is broad. It provides the long-term communication compatibility path desired by government and public safety agencies and their…
ATM ModernizationAir Traffic Control: High Frequency Upgrade at Antarctica MCMURDO STATION, THE United States' outpost in Antarctica and flight hub for the white continent, is completing a communications upgrade that will make flights safer and air traffic control (ATC) less difficult.…
CommercialAir Transport: How Delta Adds Safety Using the FMS SINCE 1997, DELTA AIR LINE'S primary expansion strategy has been to strengthen its presence in Latin America, beyond its existing routes to Mexico City. It's a strategy that brings financial rewards but…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: We Explain the Technology OUR MISSION WAS TO explain the technology." That is what motivated technical writer Len Buckwalter to launch Avionics Magazine 25 years ago. And that remains the magazine's mission today. In this issue,…