Business & GAARINC Standards: Where They Come From, Why We Need Them We in the aviation industry know of ARINC standards but may not know how they are developed and what their significance is. We can learn more about these areas, however, by understanding…
ATM ModernizationPeople Drake Electronics Ltd.: Green, Sales & Marketing UK-based Drake Electronics Ltd. recently added Bruce Green to its international sales and marketing team. Based in Ottawa, he is responsible for Drake’s business development…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Tomorrow's Navaid Mix What a difference a Volpe National Transportation Systems Center study makes. When this U.S. government organization submitted its study of GPS vulnerabilities to the Department of Transportation (DoT) in early September 2001–followed…
CommercialElectronic Flight Bags –– Part II Like an alignment of the planets, events and activities surrounding the development of electronic flight bags (EFBs) have been coming together to form what would appear to be a large new market…
Business & GAPilot Report: Flying the FlightMax As a professional pilot, I look for a multifunction display (MFD) that is user friendly, presents information clearly and allows database updating with ease. I discovered all three characteristics while evaluating Avidyne’s…
Business & GALoran-C: Will I Be the Savior of GPS? To many, the notion that Loran-C could be the savior of the satellite-based GPS system would seem a little ridiculous. After all, didn’t GPS replace Loran-C in most airplane cockpits several years…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Bus Analysis Tool Albuquerque, N.M.-based SBS Technologies recently introduced its next-generation PASS 3.0 bus analysis software for Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC 429 and 575. Called the PASS 3200, the software system takes advantage…
ATM ModernizationPeople ITT Industries: Chubik, VP and Controller ITT Industries recently promoted Mark Chubik to vice president and controller of its Avionics Division. A 15-year veteran at the company, he formerly was the Value…