Avionics

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

Aircraft

Rockwell Finalizes Acquisition of AR Group

Rockwell Collins yesterday completed the acquisition of AR Group and its affiliated companies, including business aviation trip-support services provider A
Avionics

Passengers rave about Aircell’s 3G Internet

By anybody’s measure, the last year has been a big one for Aircell.
Avionics

Garmin adds TCAS, TAS to its portfolio

It’s official: Garmin can now add to its list of avionics specialties the coveted title of TCAS maker.
Avionics

Collins HGS Approved for Lower Cat I Minimums

Certain head-up guidance systems produced by Rockwell Collins can now be used to fly to lower Category I ILS approach minimums after the company last month
Avionics

Universal CVFDR Gains TSO, STC Approvals

The FAA last month issued an STC applicable to the King Air series for Universal Avionics’ new cockpit voice recorder, which is part of a lineup of five mo
Avionics

Arinc Adds SkyLink/eXchange Connection to BBJ

Arinc last month completed the first integration and testing of an eXchange/SkyLink broadband Internet system aboard a Boeing Business Jet.
Avionics

Newest AV8OR gives users a bigger screen and more data

Honeywell’s Bendix/King division released its newest AV8OR Ace po
Avionics

The Future of Global Navigation

For years the world’s aviation authorities have been preparing for the transition to a re-imagined operating environment where an array of new technologies
Avionics

Vision 1000 added to Eurocopter’s light helos

Eurocopter is offering a low-cost and lightweight flight data monitoring system for light helicopters.
Avionics

Vector Gets STC For Bell 407 Glass Cockpit

Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services has received an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) for an integrated cockpit display system (ICDS) in the Bell 40
Avionics

Newsmakers 2009: FAA OKs field approvals for Waas LPV upgrades

Universal Avionics spent much of the last year working with FAA officials trying to come up with a way to upgrade the customers’ flight management systems
Avionics

Rockwell Collins Buying AR Group

Rockwell Collins last month announced plans to acquire AR Group and its affiliated companies, which includes business aviation trip support services provid
Avionics

GE Acquires RNP Procedure Maker Naverus

GE Aviation acquired Naverus, the Kent, Wash.-based supplier of performance-based navigation (PBN) services.
ATC

FAA Sets ADS-B Standards, Paving Way for NextGen

The FAA last week finalized the industry-wide technical standard orders (TSOs) for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), the backbone of Next
Avionics

Sora Bundled Satcom System Bows

International Communications Group (ICG) has partnered with Cobham to develop a bundled Iridium and Inmarsat SwiftBroadband satellite communications system
Avionics

EMS Sky Connect Launches Forté

EMS Sky Connect introduced the Forté AirMail service last month, pitching it as giving passengers “pole-to-pole, anywhere-on-the-globe, unfettered in-fligh
Avionics

Panasonic Intros Ku Broadband

Panasonic Avionics has introduced what it calls a “global communications suite” that is designed to provide head-of-state aircraft with the ultimate in air
Avionics

HGS-6250 OK’d on G450, G550

Rockwell Collins announced that its HGS-6250 head-up guidance (Hud) system has been certified for the Gulfstream G450 and G550.
Avionics

Primus Elite adds features to Honeywell avionics suite

The Legacy 650, the newest addition to Embraer’s growing choice of business j
Avionics

ViaSat Names Broadband Hardware Resellers

ViaSat, a Carlsbad, Calif.
Avionics

Despite protests from Aircell, TrueNorth offers OpenCabin

A fight is brewing between TrueNorth Avionics of Ottawa, Canada, and Aircell, the creator of an air-to-ground broadband data network for aircraft, over a s
Avionics

Hud/EVS OK imminent for Challenger 604

Elbit Systems of America said that the installation of the first head-up display (Hud) and Kollsman enhanced-vision system (EVS) combination in a Challenge
Avionics

SmartPath Landing System Approved by FAA

Honeywell’s SmartPath precision-landing system recently became the only ground-based augmentation system (GBAS) to receive FAA approval.
Avionics

Rockwell continues testing Pro Line Fusion cockpit

Rockwell Collins has started fligh
Avionics

Nextant Beechjet Pro Line 21 upgrade STC’d

Nextant Aerospace announced at the NBAA Convention that it has received STC approval for its Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 flight deck retrofit for Beechjet
Avionics

IS&S unveils Falcon 2000 Retrofit cockpit

Dassault has selected a cockpit upgrade from Exton, Pa.-based Innovative Solutions & Support that is designed to bring a host of advanced capabilities
Avionics

Flight Options chooses Aircell Internet

Flight Options plans to equip most of its fleet of fractionally owned business jets with Aircell’s high-speed Internet system, a decision that will give th
ATC

NextGen’s ‘Best-Equipped, Best-Served’ Flawed

Department of Transportation inspector general Calvin Scovel III told a congressional panel yesterday that a plan to jump start NextGen ATC equipage by use
Avionics

With G3000, Garmin brings touchscreens to flight deck

Garmin caused the biggest stir at last month’s NBAA Convention by unveiling the G3000 integrated avionics system, a follow-on to the G1000 cockpit that wil
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Avionics

Gulfstreams, Falcons await cockpit upgrades

Honeywell is about to release two long-awaited avionics software upgrades, the first for Gulfstreams flying with the PlaneView cockpit and the other for Da