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Avionics News Update: West Star gains STC for standby

West Star Aviation last month announced the receipt of an STC covering the installation of L-3 Avionics’ GH-3100 standby instrument and magnetometer in the
Avionics

Avionics News Update: Icom gains experience with OLEDs

OLED technology has been offered for the last couple of years in the small displays used in some business jet cabin management systems, but now Icom Americ
Aircraft

Emergency AD targets Eclipse thrust levers

The pilot of an Eclipse 500 pushed the throttles forward during a wind-shear encounter at Chicago Midway Airport last month with enough force to result in
Aircraft

Eclipse Developing Thrust Lever Software Fix

Eclipse Aviation said extra margin added to the Eclipse 500’s thrust lever forward range of motion should prevent the levers from being pushed beyond their
Aircraft

Eclipse 500 Operators Responding to Emergency AD

The FAA and Eclipse Aviation are awaiting the results of thrust-lever quadrant inspections on the more than 200 in-service Eclipse 500s before determining

NBAA 2001 assumes an all-new aura

Exhibitors who prepared to make big announcements in New Orleans last month were scrambling to draw up alternative plans in the weeks following NBAA's deci
Avionics

LCDs coming for Bombardier Globals

It looks as though LCD flight displays will be coming to the cockpit of Bombardier’s Global Express sooner than many thought.
Avionics

Cessna selects Collins HGS for Columbus

Rockwell Collins announced that Cessna has selected its HGS-6000 head-up guidance system for the Citation Columbus, set to debut as the Wichita manufacture
Avionics

Avionics News Update: ICG offers med monitoring link

International Communications Group (ICG) has created an interface between its NxtLink Iridium satellite communication systems and the Tempus remote medical
Avionics

Avionics News Update: eNfusion installation complete

Duncan Aviation said it has completed installation of an EMS Satcom eNfusion HSD-400 satellite communications system in a Bombardier Challenger 601-3R.
Avionics

Avionics News Update: Avidyne unveils Iridium transceiver

Avidyne introduced at EBACE in Geneva last month an Iridium-based satellite data transceiver that the company said can provide to customers in Europe in-fl
Avionics

Avionics News Update: Spectrum chooses Apex avionics

Spectrum Aeronautical last month announced the selection of Honeywell’s Primus Apex integrated avionics system for the all-composite S-40 Freedom midsize b
ATC

FMS limitations leave some operators unable to use LPVs

Although WAAS LPV (lateral precision with vertical guidance) approaches have been popping up at airports around the U.S.
Avionics

Aircraft Electronics Association Report

The Aircraft Electronics Association’s annual convention, held April 23 through 26 near Washington, D.C., served as a bustling venue for more than two doze
Avionics

Cockpit retrofits

The idea seems simple enough: give operators of aging business jets the opportunity to remove all of their old round gauges or cockpit CRT screens and repl
Avionics

Launch Date Uncertain for Third Inmarsat I4 Satellite

The failure of a Russian Proton rocket in March has thrown the schedule for the launch of Inmarsat’s third and final I4 communications satellite into quest
Aircraft

Aerion SSBJ by 2014 unlikely, despite 40 LOIs

Aerion is still hoping to convince an OEM partner to join it by the end of this year in its quest to build a supersonic business jet capable of sprinting f
Avionics

Thales chief commits to improve aviation security

From his Paris office thousands of miles away François Lureau was as horrified by what he saw on September 11 as the millions of Americans who watched on t
Avionics

CMC accelerates pace of enhanced vision testing

With the ink still fresh on the paperwork certifying the installation of the $500,000 enhanced vision system (EVS) from Gulfstream and Kollsman, rival avio
Security

Ground handlers tighten security

Staff members at Jeppesen’s International Trip Planning Services centers in the U.S.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Collins starts trials of Challenger 601 with retrofit Pro Line 21

A Challenger 601 equipped with the Pro Line 21 Continuum avionics system from Rockwell Collins has completed initial flight tests, said the company.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Connexion future uncertain as airlines back out

Boeing’s planned Connexion airborne broadband data service was dealt a damaging blow last month when its three largest customers–American Airlines, Delta A
Avionics

Avionics Update: Garmin developing integrated cockpit

Garmin has made a name for itself in aviation in the last decade by developing a popular lineup of navigation and communication equipment for GA aircraft.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Talk is cheap with Blue Sky Network satcom

San Diego-based Blue Sky Network, a developer of low-cost airborne voice and data satcom services for business aviation, now expects to have its first satc
Avionics

Avionics Update: EMS Technologies brings high-speed data to MagnaStar phones

Los Angeles-based Teledyne Controls announced an agreement with satcom antenna maker EMS Technologies to design and integrate a high-speed data terminal fo
Avionics

Avionics Update: Qualcomm demonstrates live video conferencing

Wireless communications company Qualcomm last month put on an impressive demonstration of its medium data rate satcom system (MDSS) on the show floor at NB
Avionics

Avionics Update: Thales throws hat into EVS ring

Thales Avionics, the French firm that changed its name from Sextant Avionique last year, announced last month that it will design and certify an enhanced v

Editors' Choice: Jack Welch and the merger that fizzled

In his two decades at the helm of General Electric, during which the market value of the company increased by more than $400 billion, Jack Welch did not of

Editors' Choice: The EVS team

The enhanced vision system (EVS)–a tiny infrared camera that marries an image of the world outside the airplane to the head-up display–could easily be list