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Military

Two Ways to See

Two major U.S. helicopter programs have adopted different helmet-mounted sight/display (HMS/D) technologies. The HMS/Ds are alike in allowing pilots to fly and fire weapons without constantly looking down at the cockpit instruments.…

Commercial

The More Complex the Better

The Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) avionics facility at the Hamburg airport can service everything from a galley water heater to an inertial navigation unit or a flight management system. But it is…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Requirements Management Software A requirements management tool designed _for complex, multiphase development programs has been introduced by Telelogic, based in Malmo, Sweden, and Irvine, Calif. The company has introduced DOORS 7.0 Dynamic…

ATM Modernization

People

Seznec, Senior VP Reynald Seznec has been named senior vice president of the Thales Air Traffic Management (ATM) business group. He joined the company’s Sonar and Anti-Submarine Division in 1990 and rose…

Business & GA

Perspectives: Roadmap for Required Navigation

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released on July 22, 2003, a "Roadmap for Performance-Based Navigation." This roadmap will allow the development of air traffic procedures pilots can use…

ATM Modernization

Product Focus: Voice Switches: What’s Next?

Producing voice switches isn’t rocket science, but air traffic controllers can’t do without them. Aside from en route equipment, which has more time left before replacement becomes necessary, many switches in the…

ATM Modernization

NASA’s Solution to Runway Incursion

A system to help prevent runway incursions is being integrated into a synthetic vision system (SVS) to provide perhaps the ultimate in situational awareness to air transport pilots as they land, take…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Tales of Troubleshooting

The video screens mounted beneath the passenger overhead luggage bins in the cabin were retracting and extending continuously. They created a vivid image of an aircraft electrical system going out of control–and…