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ATM Modernization

The Issues Orbiting Galileo

Years after it was first proposed, Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system finally is moving toward launch. The European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA) this year jointly funded Galileo’s development…

Business & GA

Q&A: ARINC’s Advance Into the Business Market

Just about everybody knows that ARINC helps establish avionics standards and provides services to air transport users. Less well known are the company’s services to business aviation–even though more than 2,000 corporate…

Business & GA

New Products

Dual-Band Antennas Two new dual-band antennas, the ComDat Cl 480-1 and 490-1, are now offered by Comant Industries, Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The ComDat Cl 480-1 is an active antenna that operates…

ATM Modernization

People

Aircraft Electronics Association: Award Winners Barry Aylward, co-owner of Kitchener Aero, in Breslau, Ontario, and Mid-Canada Mod Center, in Toronto, has been named the Aircraft Electronics Association’s (AEA’s) Member of the Year.…

Business & GA

Collision Avoidance Squared

One goal of systems integration is to save precious real estate in the cockpit. Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a company jointly owned by L-3 Communications and Thales, has done its…

Business & GA

Product Focus: In-Flight Entertainment

Few systems providers got hit harder financially than the in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry, as a result of 9/11, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, and the worldwide economic slump. When airlines…

Business & GA

Safety: Getting Your Attitude Together

This much can be said with confidence: Attitude instruments do not fail often. But about twice a year their failures do lead to accidents. In instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), the airplane kill-rate…

Business & GA

Scan

RVSM Heats Up Honeywell and West Star Aviation have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification of a system enabling Learjet 35/36 series aircraft to meet the fast-approaching deadline for reduced vertical separation…