ATM ModernizationSimplifying Databus Analysis Mil-Std-1553 databus analysis tools, used to observe bus traffic, identify problems, or verify bus performance, are daily becoming more capable, as well as more complex. While analysis, in the narrow sense of…
Business & GAEditor's Note: Satnav and Satcom in Jeopardy If you don’t use it, you lose it. That’s the aphorism mouthed by the spectrum-hungry mobile satellite service (MSS) industry, which is growing faster than you can speed dial your mobile phone.…
ATM ModernizationShow Me the Benefit Europe has the world’s most crowded and fragmented air traffic environment. In an effort to improve air traffic flow, government agencies in Europe often require installation of certain avionics. Are they all…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Integration is the Future I was disappointed in your Outlook 2000 (January) issue of Avionics Magazine, which purported to give the reader "a heads up on upcoming trends in the avionics field."…
ATM ModernizationPeople Smiths Industries: Ferrie, Head of Aerospace Smiths Industries has designated John Ferrie as the new head of Smiths Industries Aerospace, following Norman Barber’s retirement at the end of the current financial year,…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Modular Measuring System Kaman Instrumentation Operations, a unit of Kaman Aerospace Corp., introduced its Series 8000 modular measuring system for noncontact positioning sensing. The product performs at a resolution of at least…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: The Fallacies of Free Flight More, not less, top-down control of the national airspace system (NAS) is seen as the solution to the rising tide of flight delays. What does that say about the concept of Free…
Business & GAThe Promising Future for FDRs and CVRs The "black box" industry – provider of safety/investigation-critical flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) – is getting a healthy boost today from more stringent government requirements in the wake…
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