ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: A Call for Spoiler Alerts COCKPIT VOICE RECORDING OF A wet runway landing that went badly: First officer: "We're down (pause). We're sliding." Captain: (Expletive - expletive). Unknown: Oh sh- (no interpretation needed in this G-rated magazine).…
CommercialIndustry Scan Canadair 604 Avionics Updated Rockwell Collins recently received a Technical Standard Order (TSO) for a mid-life avionics upgrade package for the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 604 bizjet. Integration of the upgrade into production…
MilitaryMilitary Upgrades: How the Royal Navy Advanced Its AEW AFTER BEING STUNG BADLY during the 1982 Falklands conflict, the British Royal Navy had 10 of its Sea King HAS Mk2 helicopters initially retrofitted with Thorn-EMI (later Racal and now Thales Avionics)…
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.…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Project 25 Radios: A Welcome Standard If you have anything to do with public safety, law enforcement, government agencies or contract/leased aircraft, Project 25 radios will be a reality in your life this year. And these new radios…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: The Issue of Equivalency Equivalency – the quality of being "corresponding or virtually identical in effect or function," according to Webster’s Dictionary–is hardly a new term in aviation. It has been applied to many aircraft parts,…
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