ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Airlines as Jugglers What will be in future cockpits? We hope we answered that question in part in our Outlook coverage in this issue. However, for added perspective on this topic, from the user community,…
Business & GAFast Moving IFE Matsushita has increased its market lead, Sony is for sale, and live television is making its air transport debut. These and other developments are occurring rapidly in the fast-paced, highly competitive in-flight…
Business & GASafety in Avionics: Knowing Where You Are –– Vertically Despite the hundreds of data elements displayed in a modern cockpit, one piece of information is missing: the position of the airplane with respect to its intended vertical path. Pilots have to…
Business & GASolid Growth Free Flight will impact the avionics market. Airlines want to be ready for Free Flight from day one," states Michel Merluzeau, senior analyst for the research organization Frost & Sullivan, which recently…
CommercialAvionics 99 Highlights CFIT, TCAS, ADS-B and, of course, Free Flight were some of the more widely used buzzwords heard at the Oct. 26-28 Avionics 99 conference at Bellevue, Wash. Manufacturers are engineering the means…
Editor's NotePiloting the Engineer Engineers and pilots view cockpit avionics from very different perspectives. Whereas an engineer may view his product as an enhancement to the operational environment, the pilot may see that product as yet…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Not Your Father's Loran Just as the value of real estate has been based on the word "location" repeated three times, the commendable safety record of the airline industry has been built on redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: 'Why Do the Wings Dip When I Hit Play' Due to an odd alignment of the stars or something this month, I have recently had numerous calls and e-mails about the odd topic of personal electronic items causing "in flight" disruption,…