CommercialHAECO to Close Line Maintenance Operations HAECO’s Vector economy class seat, which will launch on Cathay Pacific’s Airbus A350-1000. Photo: HAECO [Avionics Magazine 10-07-2016] Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company (HAECO) Americas, a subsidiary of the HAECO Group with…
MilitaryF-16 Avionics Upgrades Driven by What You Can't See [Avionics Magazine 10-07-2016] While the F-35 is starting to enter service and is the most technologically advanced fighter jet that the military aviation community has ever seen, its predecessor, which took its…
CommercialICAO Passes Resolution to Limit Aviation Emissions ICAO headquarters. Photo: ICAO [Avionics Magazine 10-06-2016] The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has reached a landmark agreement to curb CO2 emissions from international aviation. The Paris Agreement, which aims to limit…
Business & GAMajor Regulators Certify HUD EVS for Legacy 450/500 Rockwell Collins' Head-up Guidance System (HUGS) with synthetic and multispectral enhanced vision for the Embraer Legacy 450 and 500. Photo: Rockwell Collins [Avionics Magazine 10-06-2016] The FAA, EASA and Brazil’s civil aviation…
Embedded AvionicsEurocontrol, FAA Lay out Plans for New Flight Digital Information Exchange [Avionics Magazine 10-06-2016] Eurocontrol has released details on the Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM) for the sharing of flight data, like its sisters Aviation Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and Weather Information Exchange…
MilitaryFACE Consortium Launches Under Open Group Photo: Abaco Systems [Avionics Magazine 10-06-2016] The open group of the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Conformance Program has launched. The FACE Conformance Program defines the processes to verify, certify, and provide…
Business & GAConstant Aviation to Develop Gogo 4G STCs Constant Aviation maintenance technician working on an aircraft. Photo: Constant Aviation [Avionics Magazine 10-06-2016] As Gogo Business Aviation continues toward the scheduled launch of its 4G service in the first half of…
CommercialSpiceJet Cockpits Go Paperless with Arconics AeroDocs SpiceJet aircraft leaving runway. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Magazine 10-05-2016] Aircraft software company Arconics will deliver its AeroDocs aviation document management system software to SpiceJet. SpiceJet is a fast-growing Low Cost Carrier (LCC)…