CommercialLion Air 737 MAX Final Accident Report Cites AOA Sensor, MCAS Among Multitude of Contributing Factors Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) published its final 322-page accident investigation report on the October 2018 Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX flight JT610 crash, finding that it was caused by a combination…
Business & GA10 Innovative Avionics, Engines and Future Technologies From NBAA 2019 LAS VEGAS – At the 2019 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), airframe manufacturers, avionics vendors and jet engine-makers pushed this segment of the air transportation industry forward by embracing future-facing technologies that made…
Business & GAGulfstream Keeps G500/600 Avionics Configuration in New G700 Jet LAS VEGAS – Gulfstream opened the 2019 NBAA Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (BACE) in Las Vegas with an introduction of the new G700 business jet that will keep the same cockpit…
CommercialCan IATA’s Crowd Sourcing Tool Help Airlines Avoid Turbulence? The International Air Transportation Association (IATA) is a few months away from transitioning from the initial pilot phase for its Turbulence Aware platform — a cloud database collecting real time turbulence reports…
ConnectivityPODCAST: NSR’s Guide to Satellite Connectivity Drawing from one of the most insightful presentations from GCAS 2019, in this episode Chris Baugh and Brad Grady, respectively president and principal analyst at Northern Sky Research (NSR) — one of…
Embedded AvionicsSOSA Briefing Outlines Future Defense Sensor System Architectures A Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) technical standard briefing at the Association of the United States Army annual conference outlined the future embedded computing design approach to developing and upgrading electronic warfare,…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol to Keep CPDLC ‘Black List’ Avionics Policy in Place Long-Term Eurocontrol recently changed the way operators apply for classification of their aircraft to the operations ready list for the use of controller to pilot data link communications (CPDLC) in certain areas of…
CommercialPartner Content: Honeywell Engineering Fellow Talks Preventing Runway Excursions, Incursions Part 2 In the second part of our interview with Yasuo Ishihara, one of the senior engineers behind the development of Honeywell’s SmartRunway and SmartLanding systems, he explains where this crucial technology for mitigating…