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News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.
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Unmanned Aircraft in U.S. Airspace is Inevitable
GA representatives accept the inevitability of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying in civil airspace, but urge their safe introduction.
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Unmanned Aircraft Flying in U.S. Airspace ‘Inevitable’
General aviation industry representatives accept the inevitability of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying in civil airspace, though they urge a go-safel
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Boeing To Participate in Russian Airport Overhaul
Boeing announced today at the Moscow Air Show that it has signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) with Russia’s Basel Aero Company, operator of Sochi Airpo
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Temporary Deal Is Brokered on FAA Funding
Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced this afternoon that Congress has reached a bipartisan compromise that will allow temporary funding of
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LightSquared squabble raises questions about political games
The current GPS/LightSquared frequency battle could be described as Washington’s most recent electro-political struggle.
At least two years before Presiden
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Why has LightSquared’s plan meeting such resistance from industry?
Low-powered incoming GPS signals are allocated 1559-1610 MHz in the L-Band radio spectrum.
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FAA Seeks Contractor For NextGen Data Communications Network
The FAA has issued a request for offers to provide data communications services under the agency’s Data Comm effort, considered one of the “transformationa
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FAA Endorses Iridium Datalink for Oceanic Air Traffic Control
The FAA has endorsed use of the Iridium satellite data service for air traffic control (ATC) communications in oceanic airspace, providing airlines and bus
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FAA Appoints Former Counsel To Lead Air Traffic Organization
Nearly three months after Henry “Hank” Krakowski was forced out as head of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), the agency named acting head David Gri
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Europe Expected to Approve ADS-B Implementation Rule
July marks a turning point from the “pioneer” phase of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in Europe to the approaching ADS-B mandate.
Euro
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GPS users continue to fight proposed LightSquared network
The ongoing controversy about whether LightSquared’s proposed network of 40,000 powerful ground-based stations transmitting high-speed Internet across the
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NextGen benefits are coming, slowly but surely
Despite all the fits and starts, NextGen in the U.S.
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ADS-B Marks Turning Point in Europe
This month will mark a turning point from the “pioneer” phase to the mandate phase of Europe’s implementation of automatic dependent surveillance-broadc
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ATC training, staffing may cause errors
While fatigue has attracted the most attention as a cause of the recent well publicized air traffic controller errors, the Transportation Department’s top
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GPS Interference Would Cost U.S. $96 Billion
A study released by the Save Our GPS Coalition warns of “serious repercussions for the U.S.
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Paris 2011: NextGen, Sesar, Emissions Trading, Globalization and Business Ethics on Agenda for Aviation Industry Associations
Ethics in the global aerospace industry is one of many topics that CEOs from the U.S.
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Paris 2011: Private Captial Fund Raises $1.5 Billion To Help Kick-start NextGen ATM in U.S.
A public-private financing construct designed to assist airlines in equipping their fleets for next-generation air traffic operations is nearing realizati
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Paris 2011: Traffic rebound drives SES as nations drag their feet
The global economic recession gave pause to the relentless growth in air traffic over recent years, not least in Europe.
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Paris 2011: SESAR Achieves First Targets
The SESAR Joint Undertaking (JU) has recently carried out an extensive review to see whether there are any early results that could benefit the aviation co
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Paris 2011: Raytheon air traffic management advances STARS, ASR-11 radar
Raytheon has new developments to report in both air traffic automation systems and radar portions of its air traffic management (ATM) business.
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Crunch Time for LightSquared Tomorrow? Not Really
In accordance with the Federal Communication Commission’s January ruling, LightSquared must, in its June 15 final report on GPS compatibility tests, show t
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Mideast Bizav Group Seeks Organized ATC in Gulf
Middle East Business Aviation Association chairman Ali Al Naqbi is proposing to set up an informal working group, dubbed “Middle East Control,” to achieve
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LightSquared debate heats up
Two events last month intensified the confrontation between LightSquared, a private U.S.
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NBAA Furious over FAA’s Changes to Barr
NBAA strongly denounced a decision, announced by FAA officials late Friday
