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Effective October 1, the FAA’s trials of controller/pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) at Miami will be no more.

By next summer, a corporate flight department, probably one based in Europe, will become the first recipient of a certificate confirming that it fully meet

Before September 11, biometrics was just one of the hundreds of new high-tech buzzwords flooding into the English language, and one that was meaningless to

A study commissioned by the NGATS Institute on behalf of the FAA’s JPDO and prepared by the advanced engineering and sciences division of ITT determined th

The Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) is gaining momentum, president and CEO Rich Gage announced at the association’s annual general meeting in

The Colorado Department of Transportation has launched a new technology initiative that will provide enhanced surveillance, and thereby improve access, to

Most pilots by now are aware that at some point in the future, today’s ATC system is expected to morph into something called NextGen, Administrator Marion

Occasionally, GPS satellites are spread across the sky in configurations that prevent a receiver from calculating a good position fix.

Ask any copilot of a HUD-equipped airplane what a low-visibility approach looks like, and the answer will be the same–no different from any other airplane.

The recent commencement of low-altitude Customs and Immigration patrols by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) along the Arizona/Mexico border and the earlier

A consortium of academia and industry participants has launched a four-year program to evaluate the air traffic management (ATM) processes required to hand

While preparing for traffic to double and perhaps even triple in the coming decades, the FAA has made clear that putting up the ground-based infrastructure

In the world’s first major commitment to head-up display and enhanced vision technology by a civil operator, Federal Express announced late last year that

After more than 15 years and $200 million in development effort, the FAA in late January canceled further expenditures on the GPS Category I local-area aug

Ten days before the January 20 Presidential inauguration, the FAA issued a six-page national security flight advisory describing airspace restrictions surr

Traditionally, air traffic controller training has been a dry-as-dust classroom learning process, with piles of documents to study, rules to absorb and pro

LAAS developer Honeywell and FAA LAAS program officials remain tight lipped about how the contract, awarded in April on the understanding that the system’s

Few navigation systems have experienced the ups and downs of loran as they sought recognition.

At the FAA’s two-day New Technology Workshop last month, the focus was sharply on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS).

Like the proverbial cat with nine lives, loran has once more rebounded from attempts on its life.

AIN has learned that FAA officials are considering the introduction of TCAS-III to meet collision-avoidance needs when large unmanned aircraft start

While it may be hard to believe that the global positioning system (GPS) is already more than a quarter century old, it may be equally difficult to imagine

Pilots checking out the flight deck of the Eclipse 500 may notice something missing.

Today’s highly capable glass cockpits certainly put old, round-dial standby instruments in the shade.

Eclipse Aviation is now putting the finishing touches on its very light jet (VLJ) pilot training program.

Co-opetition–it’s the hottest new Washington buzzword, meaning that you cooperate with your competitors to ensure you’re not left out when the FAA awards t

A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asserts that certain FAA ATC systems are vulnerable to attack by “disgruntled current or fo

The FAA’s top-level Joint Resources Council (JRC) has called for the estimated cost of a nationwide, GPS-based, automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast

The FAA recently concluded a study that compares the productivity and cost-effectiveness of select U.S.

At one time or another most pilots have thought about how neat it would be to chop the throttles at FL300 or above and not touch them again until the airpl