ATM Modernization
Safety: 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…
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ATM Modernization
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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…
ATM Modernization
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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…
Editor's Note
System Design: Ped Problem Hasn't Gone Away
Readers will recall that more than three years ago we investigated the problems with personal, or portable electronic devices (PEDs) on board aircraft. We even conducted lab tests to show that the…