Business & GAEditor's Note: E-Loran Time? The need for a backup to GPS as a source of position, navigation and timing (PNT) information has been obvious for years. GPS is key to critical infrastructures and is deeply embedded…
Business & GAAdvertiser Index Aero Instruments Aeroflex Plainview Aeroflite Enterprises (714) 773-4251 Aerospace Optics Inc. AIM Astronautics Corp. of America Aviation Instrument Services Avtech Corp. Ballard Technology Dayton-Granger Data Device Corp. Deutsch ECS EMTEQ Inc. Excalibur…
ATM ModernizationSafety: Slippery Swaps Initially unnoticed by the flightcrew or air traffic control (ATC), an El Al B747–412 (4X–ELS), with 455 persons on board, slipped well below the ILS glideslope (G/S), while on finals to Heathrow…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Bizjet Market’s Avionics Concerns Corporate aviation, with its deep-pocketed customers and premium on flexibility, has always been a catalyst for innovation in avionics – from cockpit displays to in–flight entertainment to connectivity tools. Operators at the…
Business & GAProduct Focus: High-Speed 1553: Technology Advances Boost Performance While faster processing, smaller packaging and software innovations have helped push the introduction of Mil-Std-1553 products with more capabilities, cost-effective methods of achieving breakthrough data rate increases while using the same data…
Business & GAADS-B Builds Momentum, But Issues Remain The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) program for a nationwide network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations was formally launched by Administrator Marion Blakey in early May. Since that time, agency officials…
Business & GAUAV: Manned and Unmanned Aircraft: Can They Coexist? With the emergence of air vehicles like Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk, General Atomics' Predator and the NASA/AeroVironment Pathfinder, the reality of unmanned aircraft is clear. Today, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) or, to…
CommercialAmerican Airlines M&E: Offering It All While the maintenance operations of most U.S. airlines are cherry picking repair and overhaul specialties and outsourcing all other work, American Airlines Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) is increasing its range of aircraft…