Latest Articles by Tish Drake

Business & GA

Austrian Airlines to Use Lufthansa Charts

Austrian Airlines will use Lufthansa Systems' Lido/RouteManual navigation charts and will implement the electronic version, Lido/eRouteManual for flight preparation, under a five-year contract announced Tuesday. The contract also covers the use of…

Commercial

Tiger Airways Selects Sagem FDIMU

Sagem, based in Paris, will supply its flight data interface and managment unit (FDIMU) for Singapore-based Tiger Airways' for 30 new Airbus A320 twinjets, plus 20 more on option. The company said the…

Commercial

GE to Provide Avionics for China's C919

GE Aviation and its joint venture company, Aviation Industries of China (AVIC), were selected to provide avionics core processing system, displays, avionics integration and on-board maintenance systems for the C919, a single-engine aircraft built…

Commercial

FAA Issues Directive on Cockpit Windows

FAA on Friday issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) requiring operators of Boeing 757, 767 and 777s to inspect or replace certain flight deck windows. The AD is aimed at preventing smoke, fire or…

Business & GA

Aspen PFD Awarded FAA TSO

Aspen Avionics, of Albuquerque, N.M., was granted FAA Technical Standard Order (TSO) Authorization for its Evolution EFD1000C3 Pro Primary Flight Display (PFD) for Class III aircraft. The TSO certifies that the PFD software meets the Level…

ATM Modernization

FAA, Georgia Tech Sign NextGen Contract

FAA has reached an agreement with Georgia Tech to research how the increased sophistication on the flight deck under the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) will affect flight crewmembers and controllers,…

Commercial

EADS, TTTech Signed AFDX Contract

EADS and TTTech Computertechnik AG, of Austria, signed a licensing contract for the Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) data network, the companies announced Wednesday. AFDX takes existing Ethernet physical layer technology and,…

Commercial

Cathay Pacific Selects Panasonic IFE System

Cathay Pacific Airways and Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., announced Tuesday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the provision of full broadband connectivity on all Cathay Pacific and…