Latest Articles by Jonathan Ray

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Etihad Airways Commits to RNP Etihad Airways and its partner Quovadis are bringing performance-based navigation to the Middle East, having performed the region’s first Required Navigation Performance–Authorization Required (RNP-AR) approach to the…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Electronic Flight Bags

  The Apple iPad is quickly becoming as popular on the flight deck as it is in the cabins of business and air transport aircraft. The device, only now beginning to be…

Business & GA

Q&A: Southwest Airlines

Equipping an airline’s entire fleet with connectivity systems is no simple task. It’s often a multi-million dollar, multi-year and complex undertaking for airlines trying to keep planes in the air and money…

ATM Modernization

Women in Technology

I am very pleased to have been a part of the Avionics Magazine Women in Technology Awards Program and Luncheon, which took place June 4 in Washington, D.C. When we conceived this…

Commercial

System Design: Death by Tin Whiskers

At our home and office, we recycle everything we can. I have converted our lighting to low power LED and CFL lights, and I drive a pretty efficient Honda, and not very…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

July 9-15 Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough Airport, England. Visit www.farnborough.com. 11-14 Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA) Conference and Exposition, Reno, Nev. Visit www.alea.org. 23-29 EAA AirVenture, Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wis. Visit…

ATM Modernization

New Products

ATC Recorder Eizo Nanao Technologies (EIZO), of Cypress, Calif., introduced Re/Vue Mini, a compact recording device for use in Air traffic Control and Defense applications. Re/Vue Mini, the second product in its…

Embedded Avionics

Product Focus: Real-Time Operating Systems

During the next few years, the technology needed to meet NextGen requirements will be added to aircraft cockpits already bristling with advanced systems. As it is doing now for many safety-critical systems…