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Safety

Safe Flight system enhances Kodiak’s STOL capability

Safe Flight Instrument (Booth No.
Aircraft

Satcom Fit for a King

Panasonic Avionics yesterday introduced what it calls a “global communications suite” designed to provide world leader head-of-state aircraft with the ulti
Aircraft

Sora satcom makes debut

International Communications Group (Booth No.
Aircraft

IS&S upgrades Falcon displays

Dassault has selected a cockpit upgrade from Exton, Pa.-based Innovative Solutions & Support that is designed to bring a host of advanced capabilities
Aircraft

CL604 HUD/EVS nears FAA approval

Elbit Systems of America (Booth No.
Avionics

Garmin G3000 Brings Touchscreens to the Cockpit

Garmin this afternoon introduced an integrated avionics system for light turbine-powered airplanes.
Avionics

Honeywell’s SVS/EVS Could Yield Lower Minimums

Honeywell has started flight testing a technology that merges the view of an infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) with that of a synthetic-vision system (

Gulfstreams, Falcons await cockpit upgrades

Honeywell is nearing the approval finish line for major avionics software upgrades in Gulfstreams flying with PlaneView avionics and Dassault Falcons equip
Avionics

Rockwell Collins Preps Fusion for SVS Testing

Rockwell Collins plans to start flight trials early next week of the software load that will add a synthetic-vision presentation to the Pro Line Fusion avi

Rockwell Collins Forecasts Market Bottom in 2010

Deliveries of turbine-powered business airplanes will continue to fall through the end of next year before beginning a slow but steady recovery in 2011, ac
Regulations and Government

Action on Waas LPV Could Open Approval Floodgates

The FAA’s recent decision to permit Waas LPV upgrades of Universal Avionics FMS equipment under a basic field approval instead of an aircraft-specific STC
Avionics

ACSS Introduces TCAS Change 7.1 Software Update

Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS) told AIN it is readying a software update for the Phoenix company’s TCAS II and TCAS 2000 traffic
Avionics

Honeywell’s SVS/EVS Could Yield Lower Minimums

Honeywell has started flight testing a technology that merges the view of an infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) with that of a synthetic-vision system (
Avionics

In a first, FAA approves voice-recognition system

Speech-recognition technology has come a long way in the last few years, especially as cellphone makers seek to add voice search capability to their latest
Avionics

Fusion flight trials start in Global Express XRS

The Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics system took to the air aboard a customer airplane for the first time last month, completing a five-hour initi
Avionics

Aspen Avionics Unveils Helo PFD2

Aspen Avionics in Albuquerque, N.M., introduced a helicopter version of its Evolution flight display system called the EFD1000H Pro Helicopter PFD.
Avionics

Avidyne Introduces FMS400, R9 Pricing Levels

Using the stage at Oshkosh to make several product announcements, Avidyne introduced a lower-priced version of its next-gen flight management system called
Avionics

Garmin Introduces G500 Avionics SystemD

Garmin has rolled out a sub-$16,000 avionics system that’s certified for installation in nearly 600 Class I and II Part 23 airplanes (defined as singles an
Avionics

L-3’s Trilogy Standby Gains TSO Approval

L-3 Avionics Systems said last month that its new Trilogy ESI-1000 electronic standby instrument has received TSO approval and an approved model list STC a
Avionics

Passengers get first taste of Aircell Internet service

Business aircraft passengers are finally getting the chance to sample Aircell’s in-flight high-speed Internet service as customer airplanes receive t
Avionics

AIN 2009 Product Support Survey: Avionics

For the first time since AIN has been conducting its annual product support survey, a company that doesn’t start with Gar- and end in -min has claim
Avionics

Cockpit Avionics 2009

The biggest names in the avionics business have spent the last year preparing for the introduction of major upgrades to their existing integrated cockpits
Avionics

Becker unveils ADS-B transponders

Germany’s Becker Avionics last month introduced a line of mode-S transponders capable of broadcasting ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast)-in
Avionics

Satcom Direct sends Acars messages over Inmarsat I-4 network

Satellite communications services reseller Satcom Direct last month announced it has sent and received AFIS/Acars datalink messages over the Inmarsat I-4 s
Avionics

Rockwell Collins tests WAAS/LPV in Hawker 800XP

Rockwell Collins last month wrapped up flight testing of a WAAS/LPV (wide-area augmentation system/localizer performance with vertical guidance) upgrade fo
Avionics

Clay Lacy chooses Aircell Internet service for Part 135 fleet

Southern California charter operator Clay Lacy Aviation said it will equip its fleet of more than 60 owned and managed business jets with Aircell’s high-sp

LaFoy Takes the Reins at L-3 Avionics

L-3 Avionics Systems has appointed Jay LaFoy president of the company after the departure in April of former president Adrienne Stevens.
Avionics

L-3 seeks $21.7 million from Cirrus in SmartDeck lawsuit

L-3 Avionics Systems is seeking $21.7 million in a lawsuit against lightplane maker Cirrus Design over the cancellation of an order for SmartDeck cockpit s
Avionics

Esterline CMC unveils new EFB

Esterline CMC Electronics unveiled the newest version of its PilotView electronic flight bag last month at the Paris Air Show.