ConnectivityThe Integrated Cockpit: New EFB Functionality And Connectivity Options Fuel App Growth For Airlines Cockpit Connectivity The availability of WiFi and new integration hardware is enabling airlines to choose mobile Windows and iOS tablets to run real-time applications that enhance plane performance by
ConnectivityDatabus Test: More Than Meets the Eye Avionics databus technologies change slowly, but databus testers evolve at a much more rapid pace, becoming smaller, denser in circuitry, and more capable. It’s common for test cards to implement multiple
Business & GAFlirting with Avionics In reflecting on my new post as editor-in-chief of this magazine and successor to Mark Holmes, I realized that I have flirted with avionics for a long time. This began with my…
Business & GAGogo Sees Revenues in 2016, Projects A Better 2017 Gogo saw revenue increase in 2016 compared to 2015, according to its recent fourth quarter and full-year 2016 financial results. Gogo projects another increase at the end of 2017. Below are highlights…
Business & GANASA Starts Wind Tunnel Tests for Lockheed Martin X-plane Design To have the luxury of flying in a supersonic passenger jet would seem a thing of airport daydreams. But now that NASA and Lockheed Martin have started wind-tunnel testing the X-plane design,…
RegulationUK Drone Safety App Reaches 10,000 Users NATS’ drone-safety app, Drone Assist, has garnered 10,000 new users in 10 weeks, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) entity says. As the U.K. continues its efforts to regulate drone use, NATS (which…
Business & GARockwell Collins Exec Sees Business Jet Avionics ‘Headwinds’ Continuing On the same day that the General Aviation Manufacturers Assn.’s (GAMA) state of the industry report showed the number of business jet deliveries in 2016 were at the lowest level since…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol's Conclusions, Action Items from Final Approach Operations Symposium The International Civil Aviation Org. (ICAO), EASA and Eurocontrol jointly chaired the Final Approach Operations Symposium, which took place from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at Eurocontrol headquarters in Brussels. Eurocontrol released…