Avionics

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

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Avionics Update: Airbus to offer Honeywell FMS in ACJ

Airbus Industrie has added the Honeywell Pegasus FMS to the options list in the Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ).
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Avionics Update: Socata picks Honeywell FIS

Socata plans to equip all new TBM 700 turboprops and Trinidad piston singles with Honeywell Bendix/King flight information service (FIS) hardware, bringing
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Avionics Update: Avidyne introduces weather for FlightMax

Avidyne’s FlightMax multifunction displays will soon be able to receive text and graphic weather information, transmitted to the airplane through the Orbco
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Avionics Update: Icarus introduces Iridium satphone

Icarus Instruments of Tokoma Park, Md., has introduced SatTalk II, a low-cost satcom system that uses the Iridium network of satellites to route calls arou
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Avionics Update: Qualcomm, Globalstar demonstrate airborne web technology

Neither company has a product that it intends to put on the market anytime soon, but both Qualcomm and Globalstar are demonstrating a satellite-based airbo
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DOT warns of serious risks to GPS signals

To counter the possibility of jammed and  “spoofed” signals, the authors of a U.S.
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TSB questions standby instrument placement

Following the 1998 crash of a Swissair MD-11 off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has issued an aviation safety adviso
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L-3 SmartDeck Gets TSO and STC Approvals

L-3 Avionics late last week received TSO and STC approvals from the FAA for its SmartDeck integrated avionics system.
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Moving Terrain Eases European Flight Planning

Moving Terrain (Booth No.
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Zodiac To Create Global Service and Support

Zodiac has announced the implementation by September of a global customer service and support network for all its products sold under 12 different brand na
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NAT Unveils Live In-flight IPTV

Cabin electronics specialist NAT Seattle (Booth No.
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Gedera Shows Environmental Control Systems

Gedera, Israel-based TAT Technologies (Booth No.
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Thales HUD certified in Global Express

The FAA and Transport Canada have certified the $450,000 Head-up Flight Display System (HFDS) developed by Thales Avionics of France as an option on Bombar
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FAA plans follow-on to Alaskan ADS-B project

Buoyed by the success of its three-year ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) operational evaluation project, named Capstone and centered on B
Rotorcraft

Latest software EGPWS certified for S-76

D&D Design of West Milford, N.J., received an STC for installation of the Honeywell Mk XXII Enhanced GPWS with the latest 008 software in the Sikorsky
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Cargo aircraft will be required to have TCAS

Virtually all cargo aircraft will be required to have TCAS installed by Oct.
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E-chart software glitch plagued Jepp

Aeronautical chart provider Jeppesen is experiencing first hand some of the angst that can accompany a business’s transition to the brave new world of digi
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EMS Satcom challenging Iridium with free calls

In a move aimed at winning back market share from Iridium, EMS Satcom (Booth No.
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Avionics Update: ACSS unveils combined TCAS, TAWS

Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint-venture company owned by L-3 Communications and Thales Avionics, plans to certify a comb
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Avionics Update: Universal 'Super' FMS gains TSO

Universal Avionics has received TSO authorization for its first so-called Super FMS, the Tucson, Ariz.
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Avionics Update: Sandel terrain awareness system delayed

Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif., is telling customers that the certification program for its terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) is encountering d
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Avionics Update: Stevens Aviation to provide RVSM avionics for Avanti

An STC’d RVSM avionics installation for the twin-turboprop Piaggio P.180 Avanti will be provided by Stevens Aviation of Greenville, S.C.
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Avionics Update: Duncan receives multiple avionics STCs

The Citation 500 series, Challenger 600 and Falcon 2000 are the latest recipients of Duncan STCs for various avionics installations.
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Avionics Update: Multifunction retrofit display under development

Honeywell is developing a flat-panel retrofittable display system called the Multifunction Radar Display (MFRD), which will show moving-map navigation, wea
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Avionics Update: Honeywell's Web portal offers avionics and more

Honeywell officially launched its MyFlite.com e-commerce Internet site, a Web portal that is designed to serve business aircraft, regional airline and gene
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Global Express Web link gives Bombardier a leg up over GV

A maxim of modern commerce states that the key to success in business lies in always staying a step or two ahead of the competition.
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Following bizav’s lead, many airlines see the virtues of HUD

After many years of diligent, and what must often have been discouraging, marketing efforts by their manufacturers, sales of head-up displays (HUD) have no
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Rockwell Collins starts afresh as nimbler, independent entity

Rockwell Collins last month began operating as a stand-alone company following its successful spin-off on June 29 from former parent Rockwell International
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Thales wants bigger slice of bizjet avionics

Thales announced it is aiming to become a major supplier of avionics systems to the business aviation market, challenging the likes of Honeywell and Rockwe
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Boeing Starts Work on First BBJ3

Boeing (Booth No.