Business & GA

RUAG Overhauls DHC-6 Twin Otter Avionics

[Avionics Today February 21, 2014] Technicians at RUAG Aviation's facility in Bern-Belp, Switzerland completed an avionics overhaul for a 33-year-old DHC-6 Twin Otter.    RUAG said the overhaul was part of its re-life…

ATM Modernization

UK-Ireland Air Traffic Plan Underway

[Avionics Today February 21, 2014] The U.K.'s Civil Aviation Authority and Ireland's Irish Aviation Authority Safety Regulation Division (IAA SRD) have finished drafting a joint performance plan for combining Air Traffic Control (ATC)…

Business & GA

PilotView EFB to Go in CSeries

[Avionics Today February 21, 2014] Esterline CMC Electronics' PilotView Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) has been selected as a factory option for Bombardier's CSeries aircraft.      PilotView EFB. Photo, courtesy of Esterline CMC.…

Business & GA

Sandel Improves SG102 Performance 

[Avionics Today February 21, 2014] Sandel Avionics announced upgrades to its SG102 Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) to improve the initialization time by one minute, or three times the speed of the…

Business & GA

Garmin Adds Synthetic Vision to iPad App

Garmin has updated its iPad and iPhone-based Garmin Pilot to include Synthetic Vision (SV).    The synthetic vision display within Garmin Pilot as it appears when used in conjunction with a GDL…

Commercial

Trimble Launches AX60i, AX80

[Avionics Today Feb. 20, 2014] Trimble has unveiled two new additions to its airborne LIDAR systems portfolio, the AX60i and AX80, designed for fixed wing and rotorcraft.    The systems are designed…

Embedded Avionics

US Navy Tests Super Hornet Infrared Sensor

The U.S. Navy completed its first flight test of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensor, designed to find hard-to-track targets over long distances.    Boeing…