Business & GAProduct Focus: Avionics Integration Kits The problem: You own a fleet of older aircraft that still have useful time. You want to update the aircraft to enhance their utility, safety and efficiency. But your engineering staff can’t…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Time to Stop Fuel Tank Explosions It is often said that it takes two and a half accidents to spur the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to corrective action. By this standard, the feds are late, sunk even…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Thales Joins with L-3 Communications Thales Avionics and L-3 Communications signed an agreement in mid-April to form a joint venture company, to be located in Phoenix, Ariz. This move is consistent with…
Business & GAAirshow -- No Longer a Single-Product IFE Provider In this age of computer technology, demand for in-flight entertainment, Internet, e-mail and wireless capability is on the rise. Airshow Inc. is busily working on solutions to make it all possible. The…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Project 25 Radios: A Welcome Standard If you have anything to do with public safety, law enforcement, government agencies or contract/leased aircraft, Project 25 radios will be a reality in your life this year. And these new radios…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: The Issue of Equivalency Equivalency – the quality of being "corresponding or virtually identical in effect or function," according to Webster’s Dictionary–is hardly a new term in aviation. It has been applied to many aircraft parts,…
ATM ModernizationThe Fruits of FANS FANS, the Future Air Navigation System, was developed to support optimum, least-time tracks and rapid route-clearance changes for airliners flying over oceanic or remote areas, where conventional navaids and air traffic control…
ATM ModernizationFeedback I read your well-written column "Airmanship Uber Alles (page 39) in the March issue. Unfortunately, I believe there is one mistake, which might cause inconvenience to my fellow aviators from Slovenia, looking…