Avionics

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

Avionics

FCC Kicks LightSquared Can Down the Road

On Tuesday, the FCC approved LightSquared’s fallback plan
Avionics

Garmin Unveils iPad-esque Aviation Navigation Devices

Garmin unveiled its aera 795 and 796 portable aviation navigation devices yesterday.
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Regulations and Government

OMB Attempts To Alter DOD’s LightSquared Briefing

A confidential briefing on the LightSquared/GPS situation presented by Gen.
Avionics

LightSquared Claims GPS Fix, Coalition Skeptical

LightSquared signed an agreement yesterday with Javad GNSS to develop a system that it
ATC

Next-gen Iridium Satellites Might Carry ADS-B Payloads

Satellite communications provider Iridium is in discussions with other aerospace companies and air navigation service providers to equip its next generatio
Regulations and Government

LightSquared, FCC Receive Congressional Scrutiny

Congressional opponents of LightSquared’s 4G broadband plan all
Avionics

Honeywell Seeks FAA Landing Credit for Combined Vision System

Today avionics manufacturers offer products that meet the FAR 91.175 requirement, Article image

Lexavia Near Certification Of EVS On AS355 TwinStar

A new entrant to the infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) market, Lexavia, is about to receive FAA certification of its first camera/display installation,
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Avionics

EMS Tech Now Part of Honeywell

EMS Aviation is appearing at NBAA’11 for the first time as a member of the Honeywell Aerospace family.
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Aircraft

Cobham Highlights Recent Platform Wins

Demonstrating its technological range and capabilities, UK-based Cobham (Booth No.
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Avionics

VT Miltope Adds Wireless Access to Bizjet Cabins

VT Miltope is featuring, here at the NBAA show, a network product family with the functionality to create custom airborne systems in the same way business
Aircraft

Southwest Airlines’ RNP Operations Progressing Slowly

Southwest Airlines’ ambitious fleetwide implementation of required navigation performance (RNP) operations is making slow progress
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Avionics

Javad GPS May Save LightSquared's Bacon

Can GPS and LightSquared coexist? Within the civil and military GPS community, the answer has been emphatically and unequivocally
Avionics

Rockwell Collins Moving Fusion into Part 23 Market

Rockwell Collins is moving aggressively into the light jet and turboprop market with a new version of Pro Line Fusion targeted at smaller aircraft.
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Avionics

Honeywell moves forward on head-down EVS/SVS combo

The future is coming and it looks like this: the weather at your destination was supposed to improve, but it stubbornly remains below the 200-foot minimums
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Avionics

Rockwell Collins HUD gets synthetic vision

The overwhelming desire when looking at the Pro Line Fusion system in the Rockwell Collins Challenger 601 on which we took a test flight is to keep looking
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Aircraft

Hawker Beechcraft Announces Pro Line Fusion retrofit

Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support announces Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion upgrades.
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Avionics

King Air Lands First Pro Line Fusion Retrofit System

A Pro Line Fusion retrofit is in the works for the King Air.
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Avionics

Gogo Biz To Be Factory Option on Cessna Citation CJ4

Cessna Aircraft today announced at the NBAA Convention that it will offer Aircell Gogo Biz high-speed airborne Internet as a factory option for the CJ4.
Avionics

SmartBag Saves Sore Shoulders

Visitors to this year’s NBAA show can wave goodbye to sore shoulders with a brand new app from SmartBag.
Avionics

Standard Aero Fulfills Old Promises

Standard Aero is delivering on promises made at last year's NBAA.
Avionics

Rockwell Collins Turns Today Into Tomorrow

The Pro Line Fusion retrofit for the King Air features what Rockwell Collins claims is the industry’s first touchscreen flight displays.
Avionics

Elbit Delivers 1,000th EVS

Elbit Systems of America’s Kollsman Commercial Aviation unit is celebrating delivery of its 1,000th infrared enhanced vision system (EVS).
ATC

Contractors Eye Data Comm Program as Standards Evolve

The competition is under way to provide air-ground data communications in U.S. domestic airspace
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Aircraft

Hawker Beechcraft Announces Pro Line Fusion Retrofit

Hawker Beechcraft also announced that synthetic vision will be available on all Pro Line 21-equipped Hawker and Beechcraft platforms.
Avionics

ViaSat-1 Comm Satellite Launch Set for October 19

ViaSat-1 has planned coverage of North America and Hawaii carrying WildBlue services for the U.S. and Xplomet in Canada.