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…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Air Safety and the Coefficient of Fiction The "coefficient of fiction" is a highly useful means of illustrating the relationship between avionics and safety. The term was presented in author John Gall’s trenchant 1975 book, Systemantics, subtitled, "How Systems…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Honeywell Creates New Unit As if Honeywell hasn’t had enough excitement in one year, the company has created a new, third division under Aerospace Electronic Systems (AES). Avient Technologies will be an…