Editor's NotePlanning, Positioning, Processing: A Look into Real-Time Aircraft Monitoring Systems that enable the ability to monitor the aircraft in real time from the ground are coming to term in ways that can offer operators enormous benefits. With 58 percent of respondents…
Business & GATrueNorth Avionics to Give VIP Jets Communication Capabilities to Light Jets Optelity Hot Spot. Photo: TrueNorth Avionics [Avionics Today 10-01-2015] TrueNorth Avionics today unveiled its aviation certified product to provide light-aircraft owners with communications capabilities previously reserved for long-range VIP jets. The company’s…
ATM ModernizationItalian ATC Partners with SITA OnAir for Air/Ground Connectivity Fiumicino Airport. Photo: Ra Boe / Wikipedia [Avionics Today 10-01-2015] SITA OnAir has entered an agreement with ENAV, Italy’s Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), to jointly provide air/ground data Very High Frequency…
Embedded AvionicsFAA Approves Avionica’s 1 Terabyte Solid-State avWIFI Router System Avionica's avWIFI. Photo: Avionica [Avionics Today 10-01-2015] The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Avionica’s 18th Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) — No. ST03967AT — for the installation of the lightweight…
ConnectivitySriLankan Airlines to Offer Thales InFlyt Experience Live News & Weather Application Thales InFlyt Experience. Photo: Thales [Aviation Today 10-01-2015] Thales announced that SriLankan Airlines has become the first airline in the world to fly the Thales Avant In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) system…
CommercialAirAsia Selects Panasonic to Improve Safety and Efficiency through Connectivity AirAsia Airbus A320 at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (LFBO) in France. Photo: Laurent Errera/Wikimedia Commons [Avionics Today 09-30-2015] AirAsia has selected Panasonic Avionics Corporation to equip its aircraft with FlightLink, Panasonic’s aircraft tracking and…
ATM ModernizationSESAR Validates Solution for Seamless Cross-Border ATC Cross-border ATC. Photo: SESAR Joint Undertaking [Avionics Today 09-30-2015] Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) members have recently carried out a series of validations on a solution to facilitate interoperability between Air…
ConnectivityUltramain Systems Partners with Gogo to Connect Aircraft Maintenance Reporting Applications FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: Matthew Bisanz/Wikimedia Commons [Avionics Today 09-30-2015] Ultramain Systems, a developer of airline operational software, and Gogo are partnering to connect Ultramain’s aircraft maintenance applications. "Aircraft…