Embedded AvionicsBAE Systems Begins Korean F-16s Avionics Upgrade Program in US [Avionics Today June 25, 2014] The Republic of Korea Air Force's fleet of F-16 fighter jets has begun an avionics upgrade program in Fort Worth, Texas where BAE Systems will be equipping the…
CommercialFAA Plans Small UAS Rule Later This Year [Avionics Today June 25, 2014] The FAA is planning to publish a "broad proposed rule" regulating the commercial use of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) later this year. Operations and technological specifications form…
Editor's NoteGlobal Connected Aircraft Summit Looks at New Reality for Airlines We have just completed our first ever Global Connected Aircraft Summit event in California with a top-class line up of speakers with a number of global airlines such as United, Lufthansa, Emirates,…
Editor's NotePerfect Upgrade Scenarios: Airlines Discuss Their Cockpit Plans Although Delta Air Lines has hit the final phases of going paperless with Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) on a Microsoft Surface 2 tablet, the company does not see many upgrades mandated as…
Editor's NoteCabin Management Systems: Building the Bizjet of the Future Cabin Management Systems (CMS) create the passenger experience in bizjets. At a minimum, the CMS is the architecture that integrates cabin elements such as lighting, temperature, audio, video and Internet connectivity, and…
Editor's NoteElectronic Flight Bags: Big Improvements, Bright Future Every day, more operators around the world are swapping paper-based flight operations and hundreds of manuals and navigational charts for Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) as Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) technologies continue…
Editor's NoteContact Lost: Preventing Another MH370 Malaysia Airlines’ Flight MH370 is not the first aircraft to disappear and leave the public in the dark about what happened for months and even years on end. Air France’s Flight 447…
ATM ModernizationFrench ATC Strike Jeopardizes SES Implementation, Disrupts European Air Travel [Avionics Today June 24, 2014] The six-day strike by French Air Traffic Controllers (ATC), which entered its first day Tuesday, is projected to cause up to 14,000 hours of delays in European air…