ATM ModernizationDeployable Flight Incident Recorders: Avoiding, Not Just Surviving, a Crash For rescue forces in search of a downed airliner, signals from an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) can help save lives. For air accident investigators, memories in flight data and cockpit voice recorders…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Aircraft for Everyone Here’s a thought that may send a shiver down the spines of seasoned air-transport and corporate pilots–especially if they also regularly witness the chaos on the Los Angeles freeway or Washington Beltway…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Omission of the miniQAR I am writing to inform you of an omission in the referenced article (Avionics Magazine, April 2000, page 34). Although the article’s main focus is on FDRs and…
ATM ModernizationIs Europe Ready for RVSM? For some airlines, preparation for Europe’s new reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM) represents simply extending the use of equipment and procedures they now employ while flying over the North Atlantic. But for…
Business & GAThe Real Reason Selective Availability Was Turned Off It isn’t too often that the President of the United States announces a change in the signal format of a public navigation aid. Especially when, as he pointed out, his announcement was…
Business & GALuxury Joins Speed and Flexibility Enter the cabin of a Bombardier Challenger and one would expect a plush interior: leather seats, galley, soft lighting, and in-flight entertainment (IFE). And it’s no different with Flight Services Group’s (FSG’s)…
Business & GAUAE's Modernized Mirage At the Dubai Air Show last November, the Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Co. (GAMCO) announced that it had won a contract from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence to…
ATM ModernizationNew Mexico's Technological Finds Microscopic machines, satellite science, high-speed semiconductors, and voice operated, 3-D air traffic imagery. This is the kind of wizardry currently spewing from New Mexico, and at Mach speeds. New Mexico has the…
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