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ATM Modernization

Q&A: Mike Hewitt: Business Jets Flying with FANS

On May 24, 2004, the first business jet using future air navigation system (FANS) technology crossed the Atlantic and communicated with air traffic controllers via digital messaging. The aircraft was a Boeing…

Commercial

Safety: Perils of Single-Point Failures

This is an example of a single-point failure that could have been prevented in design. The case involves a de Havilland DHC-8 that was on a passenger flight from Horn Island to…

ATM Modernization

Scan

ATC Institute The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has partnered with the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) to form an industry institute that will support the development of a state-of-the-art air traffic control…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

May 16-17 Military Embedded Electronics and Computing Conference (MEECC), Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Calif. Sponsored by the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA). Contact Ray Alderman, VITA, phone 480-837-7486, e-mail [email protected] or visit…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Connectors: Saga Continues

In our August 2004 issue we reported that the saga surrounding the establishment of a fiber optic connector standard "has reached a climatic decision point." It has. But the saga continues. And…

ATM Modernization

Eclipse 500: Implications of Integration for VLJs

It's interesting--indeed, paradoxical--that while some members of the aviation industry will, during the next 12 months, be celebrating the arrival of glass cockpits in the coming very light jets, or VLJs, other…

Business & GA

Editor's Note: Avionics Syndrome: An EFB Inhibitor?

If an electrical device is operated in the cockpit, it must be complex, certified and expensive, right? Well, not necessarily. And the inability to think beyond that bias probably has inhibited the…