Air Taxi

The Top 10 Avionics International Articles of 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, we have compiled the top 10 most read articles published by Avionics International this year. Using our web data analytics platform Parse.ly, our traffic monitoring shows…

Air Taxi

What's Trending in Aerospace - December 20, 2020

Check out the Dec. 20 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines happening across the global aerospace industry. Commercial Aviation   …

Regulation

10 Drone Companies Receive Airworthiness Criteria from FAA

Ten unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) received airworthiness criteria for certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the next step towards integrating small UAS into the national airspace, according to a Nov.…

Regulation

FAA, NASA UAS Demonstrations Mark End of UTM Pilot Program

The second phase of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management pilot program (UTM/UPP) ended with testing demonstrations in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…

IIOT

FAA Makes New Beyond Unmanned Aircraft Initiative Permanent

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a new permanent commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) airspace integration initiative, BEYOND, that will focus on three challenge areas: beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations,…

Business & GA

FAA Privacy ICAO Program Gains Foothold, But Extent Limited Thus Far

Last November, New Hampshire-based Private Jet Services (PGS) Group warned that aviation hobbyists, crowdsourced websites, and hackers were intercepting flight data using private Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receivers—available for as little as…