Cabin Interior and Electronics
Flying with ViaSat Ka-band Satcom
The author experiences a flight in an Embraer Praetor 600 equipped with ViaSat's new Ka-band Satcom.
The ViaSat tracking of the flight in the Embraer Praetor 600 from Teterboro to Farnborough. (Image: ViaSat)
The ViaSat tracking of the flight in the Embraer Praetor 600 from Teterboro to Farnborough. (Image: ViaSat)

During a flight on Embraer’s Praetor 600 from Teterboro, New Jersey, to TAG Farnborough Airport before EBACE, AIN editor-in-chief Matt Thurber, along with other four passengers and two pilots on the flight, was able to try out ViaSat’s Ka-band Global Aero Terminal (GAT) 5510, which was recently STC’d for installation in super-midsize jets. For most of the flight over the Atlantic, we had a good connection to the ViaSat satcom network. Thurber ran two speed tests during the flight: one showed 7.68 Mbps download and 0.68 upload, while the second delivered 15.8 down and 1.67 up.