Business & GA

Cabin 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…

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Another Big Step Forward for ADB-B

It was an overcast October night at the Louisville (Ky.) Standford Field when five Boeing 727 freighters lined up for departure on the airport’s runway 35R. Four were owned by United Parcel…

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Product Focus: Air Traffic Control Switches

Most people think of a switch as something small and simple–something that can be manipulated by a finger. Not so in an air traffic control (ATC) center. The ground-based megaswitches for ATC…

Business & GA

ATN and the Reluctance to Accept the Inevitable

The Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN) will shoulder no small amount of responsibility. Quite simply, it is being developed to interconnect all operational components of civil aviation, both air and ground, through a…

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Editor's Note: How Far Will ATC Privatization Go?

It appears the United Kingdom will carry through with the partial privatization of its National Air Traffic Services (NATS) organization. Will the United States do the same with the Federal Aviation Administration’s…

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Feedback

Definitely Not First An article titled "Resourceful Rafale" appeared in the September 2000 issue of Avionics Magazine (page 16) and included the following statement on page 21: "The Thomson-CSF SB25A is said…

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New Products

dataMARS104 Ampol Technologies Ltd. has introduced the dataMARS104 for monitoring, recording and analyzing aircraft avionics communications data. The modular system includes a flight data recorder unit, integrated removable recording media, and ground…