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FlightSafety Boeing: Williams, Regional Sales Mgr. FlightSafety Boeing Training International LLC has appointed Martin Williams as regional sales manager for the Europe/Africa/Middle East region. He is responsible for flight training sales activities.…

ATM Modernization

New Products

VME/VXI The Versa Module European (VME) and VME eXtension for Instrumentation (VXI) persist as trusty old standards for avionics databus equipment. VME is popular for research and development and software development, as…

ATM Modernization

Safety in Avionics: Avionics Safety, Real or Illusory

Sometimes noticing a single item can lead to larger insights about electrical and avionics system safety. The case at hand involved yet another airworthiness directive (AD), issued recently, calling upon operators to…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

New Displays for Airbus Airbus Industrie is introducing a new, main instrument panel using liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, with certification on the A330/A340 and A320 families expected by the end of…

Business & GA

Broadening Weather Radar's Scope

Weather radar has come a long way, showing much more today than the stormy conditions ahead. Windshear and turbulence detection is being integrated into on-board radar systems, as are terrain and traffic…

Business & GA

Avionics System Design: Living with Connectors

Connector choices and tooling have a rather extraordinary impact on system reliability, because all connections to and from your unit have to travel through them. As a result, designers must stay focused…

Military

C-5 Modernization, Step-by-Step

The U.S. Air Force’s C-5 aviation modernization program (AMP) is a long-term project just getting underway, with fleet-wide installation of an advanced traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS). But TCAS is…

Commercial

Editor's Note: The Persistent PED Problem

By now, I believe we have heard enough about the threat of personal electronic devices (PEDs) in commercial aircraft to know that we have a potential safety problem needing urgent attention. Our…