ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Diel Avionik Systeme: Germany’s Largest Avionics Supplier Champagne corks were popped and broad smiles surrounded the entry way of a branch office in Toulouse, France, in celebration in mid-September of the launching…

Business & GA

Safety in Avionics: Wiring: A National Concern

It’s official. Old electrical wiring embedded in the thousands of ground, water and air vehicles is a threat to the safety of America’s transportation system. So declareth a Wire System Safety Interagency…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

ALSIM Simulators JAR Approved The French simulator manufacturer, ALSIM, recently received Europe’s JAR Std. 3A certification for its line of computer-based simulators, which had already adhered to U.S. Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR)…

Business & GA

Avionics System Design: Flight-Following Via E-mail

Knowing where a plane or helicopter really is has considerable value to ground-based personnel. We are all used to positive flight control via radar for the purpose of traffic routing and collision…

Business & GA

Satcom for Your Citation

For the owner of a Cessna Citation III, the Aero-M satellite communication (satcom) system proved to be an ideal choice. He flies his business aircraft regularly to the Caribbean, where the commonly…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Topics We've Emphasized

I admit it. We’ve given Europe’s air traffic management (ATM) problems and the efforts by Eurocontrol to resolve those problems a lot of ink lately in our Global Airspace section. And this…

Business & GA

The Need to Remedy IFE Support

They may disagree on market share and on the relative merits of each other’s systems, but if there is one thing that the three in-flight entertainment (IFE) suppliers agree on it is…

Business & GA

Bell/Agusta Avionics for a Hybrid

The description of the tiltrotor is as simple as it has been frequently given: It is a hybrid aircraft that flies like a turboprop but lands and takes off like a helicopter.…