Avionics
EMS Sky Connect’s new Forte: e-mail
Has your smart phone become an indispensable means of instant communication? If so, EMS Sky Connect, a division of EMS Technologies (Booth No.

Has your smart phone become an indispensable means of instant communication? If so, EMS Sky Connect, a division of EMS Technologies (Booth No. 4489), has the Christmas gift for you: unfettered in-flight access, “pole-to-pole, anywhere on the globe.”

Sky Connect calls the service Forte AirMail and announced its launch yesterday here at NBAA. The system uses the Iridium network to prove e-mail access to any WiFi-enabled smart phone or PDA. “We tested every device we could find and everything we tested worked, as many as ten devices simultaneously, and every person was getting e-mail in less than a minute,” said Sky Connect general manager Steve Silverman.