A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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By mid-year, Universal Avionics (Booth T063) expects to bring its controller-pilot data link communications (CPDLC) capabilities to European customers with the anticipated technical standard order (TSO) approval of the latest software for its UniLink UL-800/801 Communications Management Unit (CMU). This will allow operators with the necessary CPDLC message sets to meet the European Link 2000+ Program mandate requirements, which take effect from February 2020.

 


“With receipt of this certification, our customers will be able to start realizing the efficiencies and time savings associated with communicating via CPDLC,” said Dan Reida, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing. “Our FANS-1/A+ customers have repeatedly touted these benefits for oceanic operations and now it will be available for European domestic operations as well.”

 


According to the Arizona-based manufacturer, the upgraded software control number (SCN) 31.X, addresses industry requirements for operational consistency and human factors for all FANS CPDLC and ATN CPDLC messages for operators flying in both continental Europe and oceanic airspace, and can be used for other FANS applications such as the FAA’s Data Comm.

 


The UL-800/801 CMU can be installed on a wide range of platforms, even those with a third-party Flight Management System, while the UL-801 model features an integral VHF data radio which forgoes the need to install a dedicated such system, thus saving weight and space.

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