CommercialThe Role of Moded Input Devices in Airliner Accidents There is no debate whether modern avionics have substantially improved safety and operational efficiency, but functionality has increased, the role of input devices has quietly changed. A recent cross-cutting study published in…
CommercialEFB Users Realize Airliner IT, App Growth at 2019 SAE Forum The commercial airline industry’s first uploading of information from an electronic flight bag (EFB) to an aircraft’s flight management system (FMS) was demonstrated at the 18th EFB Users Forum conference held in…
Editor's NoteInterference Poses Biggest Challenge to Using Multicore Processors in Avionics In a bid to deliver more performance from individual computer processing units (CPUs), the computer hardware industry is moving away from single-core to multi-core processors, creating serious challenges for all parts of…
CommercialDelta Upgrading IFE, Cockpit Screens After Record-Setting Quarter Delta topped 2019’s Airline Quality Rankings for the first time in nearly two decades. It has a Net Promoter Score hovering around 50 — considered the benchmark for “excellent” on the -100…
CommercialAirlines Are Starting to Dedicate Small IT Teams to EFBs At the end of June, I attended SAE International’s EFB Users Forum for the first time, and I must say that I gained a deeper understanding of what it actually takes to…
Commercial737 MAX, Air Taxis and EFBs Top Avionics Articles in July We write a multitude of articles over the course of a month, and July was pretty action-packed so we wanted to give you a brief review of our most read articles for…
From The WireNASA Reveals Partnerships Advancing Moon, Mars Tech NASA selected 10 U.S. companies for 19 partnerships to mature industry-developed space technologies. As NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, commercial companies are developing new technologies,…
MilitaryFour Companies Compete to Replace US Army Shadow Drones Four companies will now compete to build a replacement for the U.S. Army’s RQ-7 Shadow drone after the service added another two challengers to the $100 million program. The Army announced July…