Avionics

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

Avionics

Meggitt's early bird special makes Magic

Meggitt Avionics said yesterday that it is offering dealers a pre-certification sales initiative for combined orders for its Magic electronic flight instru
Avionics

Max-Viz EVS will fly on Cessna Citations

Cessna has selected Max-Viz (Booth No.
Avionics

All-digital phone to ship this fall

Deliveries of the first RCOM-100 satphone equipment, designed for use with the Globalstar Satellite system, will begin this November, Arnav Systems announc
Avionics

MxVision tracks weather in real time via satellite

MxVision AviationSentry, a PC-based weather system designed exclusively for the aviation industry, now provides pilots and FBOs with storm tracking and lig
Avionics

Gulf Coast Avionics takes the 'com' out of dot-com

There’s a new domain name on the Internet: dot-areo.
Avionics

Flight Options' electronic brain bags are pilot's pals

Flight Options’ paperless cockpits are so well-liked by its pilots that those who end up with airplanes not yet equipped with electronic flight bags (EFBs)
Avionics

Glufstream orders Arinc's broadband

Gulfstream yesterday ordered 40 of Arinc’s new SkyLink inflight broadband satellite communications systems for installation on its jets.
Aircraft

Eclipse Developing Thrust Lever Software Fix

Eclipse Aviation said extra margin added to the Eclipse 500’s thrust lever forward range of motion should prevent the levers from being pushed beyond their
ATC

Duncan is focused on RVSM compliance

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., reports it is developing a number of products and services including more emphasis on its ambitious reduced vertical sepa
Avionics

Garrett installs GIII Primus Epic retrofit

Garrett Aviation has completed its first installation of Honeywell’s integrated display system–known as the Primus Epic control display system/retrofit (CD
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Inmarsat to slash cost of e-access

Global mobile satellite communications group Inmarsat plans to offer in-flight Internet connections of speeds of up to 64 kbps to aircraft operators at “a
Avionics

Goodrich finds favor with OEMs

Goodrich Corp.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Baker cooks up a one-stop systems shop

Baker Electronics has added three new product lines to its range of aviation entertainment, management and cockpit systems, and announced the formation of
Avionics

Rockwell Collins traces its spirit of innovation to a rich heritage

A business is an institution when one of a city’s major thoroughfares and one of its fine hotels bears its name.
ATC

ISS developing RVSM for six more bizplanes

Innovative Solutions & Support continues its aggressive certification schedule of reduced vertical separation minimums (RVSM) equipment for a wide rang
Aircraft

Eclipse 500 Operators Responding to Emergency AD

The FAA and Eclipse Aviation are awaiting the results of thrust-lever quadrant inspections on the more than 200 in-service Eclipse 500s before determining
Regulations and Government

Congressional Hearing Takes On ATC Staffing, Training

During a House aviation subcommittee hearing on air traffic controller facility staffing yesterday, Natca president Patrick Forrey charged that “rampant un
Avionics

First phase of Cockpit 1 unveiled

Universal Avionics has unveiled the first phase of its new synthetic-vision cockpit avionics suite, Cockpit 1, which features large flat-panel integrated d
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Collins system sorts cabin/cockpit e-data

Rockwell Collins is banking on its new digital data acquisition, distribution and display architecture, called eFlight, to coordinate a wide range of in-fl
Engines

Garrett offers engine and panel upgrades

Garrett Aviation Services has extended its maintenance-cost-per-hour (MCPH) program to CJ610 turbojet engines on Learjet 20 series aircraft.
Avionics

New display, retrofits on tap at Honeywell

Honeywell is marketing a variety of new avionics products including a new-technology cockpit electronic display, a new satcom system and a pair of retrofit
Avionics

Meggitt Magic for King Air C90

Meggitt Avionics is to provide its Magic electronic flight information system (EFIS) as part of a retrofit program for the Raytheon King Air C90 twin-turbo
Cabin Interior and Electronics

EMS Technologies speeds satcom data

Airborne data access at speeds 50 times faster than previously possible with existing satcom systems is claimed for the new aeronautical data terminal (ADT
Avionics

Ryan's latest calls out traffic alerts

Ryan International recently introduced a new model of its traffic collision alert device (TCAD) that features an extended horizontal range and audible posi
Avionics

Flight deck spiff-up for an aging GII

DaimlerChrysler Aviation (DCA) reported the first installation of Honeywell’s Primus Epic Control Display System-Retrofit (CDS-R) and other new avionics on
Avionics

Meggitt's Magic ok'd for Twin Commander retrofit

The latest capability offered to owners and operators of Twin Commander models is the Meggitt Magic (Meggitt Avionics new Generation Integrated Cockpit) el
Charter & Fractional

DayJet, FAA To Jointly Prove NextGen Technologies

Very light jet air-taxi operator DayJet today signed an agreement with the FAA to start a five-year, phased implementation of proven NextGen technologies t
Avionics

LCDs coming for Bombardier Globals

It looks as though LCD flight displays will be coming to the cockpit of Bombardier’s Global Express sooner than many thought.
Avionics

First TCAS II-toting helo flying with Bristow

A Eurocopter AS 332 Super Puma, operated by Bristow in offshore oil transport in the North Sea, on April 9 became the first helicopter to be fitted with a
Avionics

Aircell Sets Broadband Pricing

Aircell announced that it will charge a flat monthly fee of $1,495 for unlimited access to its air-to-ground broadband data service by business aviation us