Business & GASafety in Avionics: Hazards in the Cabin More avionics are being added to the cabin than in the cockpit these days, and recent regulatory actions suggest a certain slowness in reacting to a potential safety threat. The threat is…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan New Displays for DC-9s Northwest Airlines selected Universal Avionics Systems Corp.’s MFD-640 multifunction display for retrofit in its fleet of 162 DC-9 aircraft. The new color displays will replace RDR-1E and RDR-4A…
Business & GAOne-on-One with Thales' Francois Lureau The year 2000 brought fundamental change to Thomson-CSF, now called Thales. First, there was the acquisition in June of Racal Electronics Plc, the UK manufacturer of a wide array of aerospace electronic…
ATM ModernizationPeople Federal Aviation Administration: Peacock, ATS Director The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has Bill G. Peacock succeeding Ronald E. Morgan as director of the Air Traffic Service (ATS). Morgan retired after 32…
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…