Business & GAThe Evolution of Civil Aviation Displays Cockpit displays, which serve as key sources of pilot situational awareness, are becoming more intuitive and easier to use. Technologies, often first used or envisioned in the military sector, will help to…
Business & GABell Orders 407GX, 412EPI Avionics Trainers for Academy Bell 412EPI. Photo: Tru Simulation + Training [Avionics Magazine 11-30-2016] Bell Helicopter’s Training Academy is set to receive avionics bench training systems for the Bell 407GX and the Bell 412EPI from Tru…
Embedded AvionicsChilean Navy P-3’s Get Avionics Upgrades with Rockwell Collins Tech Rockwell Collins’ Flight2 integrated avionics system selected for the Chilean Navy’s cockpit modernization program for its P-3 Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft. Photo: Rockwell Collins [Avionics Magazine 11-30-2016] IMP Aerospace has selected Rockwell…
CommercialSITAONAIR Fills Flight Tracking Coverage Gaps with Aireon Data Partnership FlightAware ADS-B Coverage Map. Photo: FlightAware [Avionics Magazine 11-30-2016] Aireon and FlightAware have announced a partnership with SITAONAIR to provide Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data to SITAONAIR’s airline customers when…
CommercialAstronautics BDHI Selected for Special Purpose Boeing 777-300ER [Avionics Magazine 11-30-2016] Boeing has selected Astronautics to supply its three-inch flight instrument AFI 3300 with a Bearing Distance Heading Indicator (BDHI) to provide supplemental tactical air navigation for Boeing’s Special Purpose…
CommercialWhat We Know: Charter Flight Crash Lands in Colombia, Kills 76 Rescue workers work to rescue survivors and recover bodies in the wreckage of the LAMIA Bolivia flight that crashed near Medellin, Colombia on Nov. 29. Photo: Aircraft Accident Investigation unit of the…
CommercialBombardier Delivers First CS300 to AirBaltic AirBaltic CS300. Photo: AirBaltic [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] Bombardier Commercial Aircraft delivered of the first C Series CS300 commercial aircraft to launch operator airBaltic, the flag carrier of Latvia, on Nov. 28. The…
CommercialTextron Releases New Integrated Tester for Aircraft Survivability Systems [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] Textron Systems Electronic Systems, an operating unit of Textron, has launched a new Integrated Tester for Aircraft Survivability Systems (ITASS) as part of its Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) product…