ATM ModernizationPutting Stars to Use U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers at the Syracuse, N.Y., Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility, along with their counterparts at the El Paso, Texas, TRACON, are now at the…
ATM ModernizationHas Europe Finally Subdued Its Summer Congestion Problem? Right now, Europe is in that dreaded season–the holiday season, when air traffic is at its worst and delays in arrival and departure mount up. But this year, European air traffic management…
ATM ModernizationPeople 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 ModernizationNew 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 ModernizationSafety 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 ModernizationA Partnership with Portent Airways Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (ANZ) and Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management (LMATM) recently signed an agreement that may well have greater significance than its stated purpose of establishing a 10-year…
ATM ModernizationPeople Eclipse Aviation: Finnoff, Harrington, VPs Eclipse Aviation Corp. appointed Chris Finnoff vice president of sales, and Jack Harrington, vice president of business affairs. Finnoff was formerly president and CEO of Pilatus Business…
ATM ModernizationNew Products DC to AC Inverters Endicott Research Group Inc. introduced the DMB Series of closed-loop DC to AC inverters for backlighting large liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with up to four cold cathode fluorescent…