Business & GAAEA Has $5K to Give Aircraft Owners for ADS-B Upgrades Aircraft Electronics Assn. (AEA) plans to hand out monetary awards to five aircraft owners, chosen at random. The awards, AEA said, are to go toward equipping aircraft with ADS-B technology. They are…
MilitaryGPS-Based Precision Landing Can Help US Navy Drones, Fighters The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been designed to land itself, using Raytheon’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS), Raytheon said. The Navy hopes to use the MQ-25…
Embedded AvionicsEurocontrol, GNSS Working Group See MOPS Progress A working group met at Eurocontrol headquarters at the end of June to discuss the development of worldwide standards for the next generation of global satellite navigation system (GNSS) receivers, Eurcontrol said.…
CommercialIATA, WMO to Expand Aircraft Weather Observation Program The International Air Transport Assn. (IATA) has agreed to a new arrangement that will help expand a global aviation weather monitoring system that currently produces 700,000 weather observations per day. Under a new…
ConnectivityPanasonic Avionics Boosts In-flight Connectivity Over Canada To provide Panasonic Avionics with added capacity to address growing customer demand for its in-flight Connectivity service, Hunter Communications and Eutelsat Americas announced the expansion of their multi-transponder contract on the Eutelsat…
ATM ModernizationNATS to Host Live Digital Event on ATM Modernization If you want to discuss the future of ATM with NATS, you should mark July 13 on your calendar. At 9 a.m. BST (4 a.m. EST), Searidge Technologies’ CTO and co-founder, Alex…
MilitarySukhoi Superjet 100 Displays Shorter Takeoff Ability with Improved Avionics Sukhoi Civil Aircraft’s Superjet 100 can take off from short runways, Sukhoi said. Proven during certification, this takeoff ability was tested at Stockholm Bromma Airport. “Since the beginning of July 2017, Sukhoi…
CommercialICAO Meets with Ethiopia, Discusses Need for Aviation Growth in Africa ICAO Council’s president, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, met with Ethiopia’s president, prime minister and ministers of foreign affairs and transport, ICAO said. During the meeting, Ethiopian President H.E Mulatu Teshome and Prime…