ATM ModernizationNew Products TCAS Interface Vista, Calif.-based Sandel Avionics has developed an enhancement to its ST3400 terrain awareness warning system (TAWS). A new interface allows the display of traffic advisory and resolution advisory (TA/RA) information…
ATM ModernizationSafety: Cruising With Smoke During the cruise phase of flight, a "smoke" event is more than twice as likely as an engine problem to cause an unscheduled landing, according to a new study of service difficulty…
ATM ModernizationPeople 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 & GAPerspectives: 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 ModernizationProduct 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 ModernizationNASA’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 ModernizationSafety: 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…
ATM ModernizationScan B747 Classic EFIS Jet Aviation Basel has installed the first electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) for a classic B747, using 6-by-8-inch, wide angle, active matrix liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Supplied by Astronautics…