Avionics

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

Maintenance and Modifications

Avidyne Offers FlexCare Warranty

Avidyne is offering an extended warranty plan called FlexCare, available for one-, two- or three-year terms after the original two-year warranty expires.
Avionics

West Star Adds EVS to Challenger 604

West Star Aviation announced the completion of flight testing in a customer Challenger 604 of a Kollsman enhanced-vision system at the company’s Grand Junc
Avionics

Dassault To Take Bigger Stake in Thales

Dassault Aviation has entered “exclusive negotiations” with Alcatel-Lucent to take over its 20.8-percent stake in defense electronics specialist Thales.
Avionics

Jury to decide Honeywell’s TAWS lawsuit

Lawyers for Universal Avionics, Sandel and Honeywell are scheduled to return to a Delaware federal courtroom this month in the companies’ long-running disp
Avionics

EFB Maker Paperless Cockpit Closes Its Doors

Owners of electronic flight bag (EFB) portable computers sold by Paperless Cockpit are searching for alternative vendors after the Tennessee company went o
Avionics

Honeywell TAWS Lawsuit Headed Back to Court

Lawyers for Universal Avionics, Sandel and Honeywell are scheduled to return to a Delaware federal courtroom next month in the long-running dispute over te
Avionics

StandardAero Announces Falcon 900 Cockpit Upgrade

Dassault Falcon 900C and 900EX owners will soon be able to receive flight-deck facelifts, thanks to a Honeywell retrofit program announced at last month’s
Avionics

Sagem Gains First Retrofit STC

Dallas-based Sagem Avionics announced it has received a supplemental type certificate for installation of its ICDS avionics system in the Commander 690 tur
Avionics

EMS Introduces Lightweight eNfusion Satcom Antenna

EMS Satcom last month introduced the latest and lightest in its line of eNfusion high-gain antennas for airborne satellite communications, the AMT-700, wei
Avionics

EASy Phase II upgrade adds SVS to Falcon line

Dassault Falcon last month announced the long-anticipated upgrade to the Honeywell Primus Epic-based EASy (Enhanced Avionics System) flight deck: the EASy
Avionics

BAE Systems intros Q-HUD for light jets

BAE Systems is aiming a new compact and lightweight head-up display, called Q-HUD, at a wide market that includes light and midsize business jets.
Avionics

Better avionics, thanks to cellphones?

It’s certainly a comforting feeling, watching the avionics techs remove old black boxes from your airplane and replace them with the latest units on the ma
Avionics

ICG introduces Iridium BlackBerry server unit

International Communications Group (ICG) last month announced that its NxtMail Over Iridium global e-mail services will now be available to users of Wi-Fi-
Avionics

Lufthansa Technik goes 3-D

Lufthansa Technik’s latest innovation in business jet cabin “infotainment” is called Niceview, an upgrade that takes the venerable moving-map display into
Avionics

Embraer Adding Kollsman’s EVS II to Lineage 1000

Embraer has selected the Kollsman enhanced-vision system II (EVS II) from Elbit Systems of America for the Lineage 1000.
Avionics

U.S. and Europe take different tacks on next-generation ATM

A September ICAO NextGen/Sesar Forum in Montreal underscored the fact that the U.S.
Avionics

TrueNorth Unveils Satphone System for Light Jets

Satcom system maker TrueNorth Avionics last month introduced a two-channel airborne telephone system for the cabin called Simphone Prelude that is designed
Regulations and Government

Universal offers CVFDR to meet upcoming rules

Universal Avionics last month introduced a cockpit voice and flight data recorder (CVFDR) with internal recorder independent power supply (Rips).
Avionics

‘Fly-by-wireless’ Technology a ‘Success’

Gulfstream Aerospace last month announced that it successfully demonstrated aircraft control using “fly-by-wireless” technology.
Avionics

Régional Takes First E170

Air France subsidiary Régional last month took delivery and placed into service the first of nine 76-seat Embraer E170s on firm order.
Avionics

Thales demos simulation tool for business aircraft cockpits

Thales is demonstrating for the first time at an NBAA Convention its new iDeck “avionics prototyping, advanced system simulation tool.” The simulation plat
Avionics

TAS Completes Icing Tests for CL-300 EVS

Total Aircraft Services has announced the completion of icing tests for its CL-300 enhanced-vision system for the Bombardier Challenger 300.
Avionics

EFB provider now displays ADS-B data

AirGator, a provider of corporate and general aviation electronic flight bag (EFB) products, and NavWorx, a designer of automated dependent surveillance-br
Avionics

EVS II selected for Embraer Lineage 1000

Embraer has selected the Kollsman enhanced-vision system II (EVS II) from Elbit Systems of America for the Lineage 1000.
Avionics

Dassault takes 10,000th ACSS TCAS

ACSS–a division of L-3–yesterday afternoon marked the production of its 10,000th TCAS (traffic alert and collision avoidance system), presenting the unit t
Avionics

EMS Satcom goes worldwide with SkyConnect

With this summer’s acquisition of Sky Connect by parent EMS Technologies, EMS Satcom can now offer full worldwide satellite communication coverage.
Avionics

Sagem ICDS approved for Commander 690

Dallas-based Sagem Avionics (Booth No.
Avionics

L-3 Signs Customers for ESIS

L-3 Avionics Systems has found three more homes for its GH-3100 electronic standby instrument system (ESIS).
Avionics

Rosen Aviation displays latest products

Rosen Aviation (Booth No.