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Cost of Maintaining Aging ATC Radars Concerns FAA

In the wake of September 11 the FAA has decided to shelve earlier plans to decommission the U.S.-wide network of ATC primary radar installations.

Avionics

October 9, 2007

WAAS Timeline Stretches Some More

The woes experienced by builders of the wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) are nothing new to those who have followed the development of the satellite-na

Avionics

October 9, 2007

Collins Demonstrates High-speed Satcom Datalink

Rockwell Collins is behind Honeywell and EMS Technologies in the race to bring high-speed data to the cockpit, but the company is still vying to make it a

Avionics

October 9, 2007

STCs unnecessary for some TAWS installations

In a welcomed shift in policy, business aircraft operators may now forego the STC process when installing class-B terrain awareness and warning systems (TA

Avionics

October 9, 2007

TCAS Prevents Potential Bizjet Midair near LAS

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) said two business jets had to take evasive action at 28,000 feet and about 60 miles northeast of L

Avionics

October 9, 2007

BBJ Approved for North Atlantic CPDLC Trial

Boeing Business Jet operators are being invited to join an airborne trial of controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) over the North Atlantic as pa

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Lufthansa Rolls Out Connexion Service on Munich to Los Angeles Route

Shown to passengers on transatlantic TWA flights, the first full-length feature film to play on an airliner was 1961’s By Love Possessed, starring Lana Tur

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Regional Carriers Select Sandel TAWS for Beech 1900s

Showing signs that it is getting back on a solid footing after nearly being KO’d by an ugly patent lawsuit, Sandel Avionics announced that three regional a

Avionics

October 8, 2007

For keeping in touch, satcom antennas provide a vital link

Nobody knows for sure who first coined the term “office in the sky,” but whoever it was, he or she must feel a certain level of vindication that this over-

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Avcon awarded group RVSM approval for Learjet 20 series

Avcon Industries recently announced it has received FAA RVSM group approval for 20-series Learjets using a modification package that the company has been d

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Budget cuts kill Miami CPDLC trials

Effective October 1, the FAA’s trials of controller/pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) at Miami will be no more.

Avionics

October 8, 2007

U.S. airspace plan will show slow progress, official warns

The multi-agency Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) now working on a roadmap for a next-generation air-transportation system (NGATS) expect

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Universal introduces the 890R, a retrofit cockpit that sizzles

Universal Avionics of Tucson, Ariz., has been quietly strengthening its foothold in the cockpit retrofit market, branching out with a variety of available

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Diamond DA-42 certification marks G1000 cockpit debut

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) last month certified the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system as part of the type certificate for the Diamond

Aircraft

October 8, 2007

Patco Is Alive if Not So Well

In 1981 President Reagan fired virtually all aircraft traffic controllers and banned them from reapplying for controller jobs after their union, the Profes

Avionics

October 8, 2007

Eurocopter seeks OK for IFR approaches to hover

Eurocopter is making further strides toward its aim of certifying a helicopter to make IFR approaches to a hover, over a given point on the ground and at a

Rotorcraft

October 8, 2007