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…
Business & GAGiant Steps Forward for GA As you read this report, general aviation (GA) pilots in Alaska are receiving one of the best tools the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ever granted them: real-time weather reports in…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: Are You Cape-Worthy? An interesting aspect of working in a company is learning from a coworker something great that you never would have thought of yourself, but still needed to know. Especially delightful is when,…
MilitaryThe Modernized 'Herc' It first flew nearly a half century ago, in 1954, yet its new cockpit could make the pilots of modern fighters and bizjets near green with envy. Lockheed Martin has transformed the…
ATM ModernizationDeployable Flight Incident Recorders: Avoiding, Not Just Surviving, a Crash For rescue forces in search of a downed airliner, signals from an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) can help save lives. For air accident investigators, memories in flight data and cockpit voice recorders…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Aircraft for Everyone Here’s a thought that may send a shiver down the spines of seasoned air-transport and corporate pilots–especially if they also regularly witness the chaos on the Los Angeles freeway or Washington Beltway…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Omission of the miniQAR I am writing to inform you of an omission in the referenced article (Avionics Magazine, April 2000, page 34). Although the article’s main focus is on FDRs and…