Content Archive: January 2008

Avionics

Honeywell Acquires Baker Electronics

Honeywell last month purchased the assets of cabin avionics specialist Baker Electronics.
Avionics

FAA Certifies Aviation’s First IFR WAAS Receiver

The FAA has certified an IFR WAAS receiver developed by UPS Aviation Technologies, the key ingredient in a forthcoming line of satellite navigation equipme
Avionics

Spirent Introduces Customizable Aircraft Server

Wichita-based Spirent Systems last month announced that the FAA awarded its latest aircraft file server–a PC running the Windows NT operating system–an STC
Avionics

Lufthansa Starts Connexion Trials

Boeing’s new Connexion satellite Internet service last month began operating in revenue passenger service aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 flying daily be
Avionics

Globalstar-based Satcom System Makes Debut

Northern Airborne Technology, a British Columbia-based subsidiary of the Chelton Group, last month introduced a lightweight satcom system that routes calls
ATC

Choosing the right handheld EFB

In the last couple of years the concept of portable cockpit computers has caught on in a big way.
Avionics

It’s getting easier to find deals on RVSM upgrades

As deadlines for domestic and expanded international reduced vertical separation minimum airspace draw nearer, more and more opportunities are popping up f
ATC

Canadians say they’ll be ready for DRVSM’s debut

Just like Paul Revere’s midnight ride to warn of the incoming British, the Canadian Business Aviation Association is signaling to its troops that RVSM is c
Avionics

Europeans catching up with WAAS, GPS

While EGNOS, SBAS, GBAS and Galileo may be unfamiliar to most North American aviators, they are key elements in Europe’s determined move to a satellite air
Avionics

Eurocopter’s talking more than just weather

Eurocopter’s “all-weather helicopter” (AWH) demonstrator has flown from the manufacturer’s headquarters in Marignane, France.