Avionics
New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.
Avionics
Avcon awarded group RVSM approval for Learjet 20 series
Avcon Industries recently announced it has received FAA RVSM group approval for 20-series Learjets using a modification package that the company has been d
Avionics
Budget cuts kill Miami CPDLC trials
Effective October 1, the FAA’s trials of controller/pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) at Miami will be no more.
Avionics
U.S. airspace plan will show slow progress, official warns
The multi-agency Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) now working on
a roadmap for a next-generation air-transportation system (NGATS) expect
a roadmap for a next-generation air-transportation system (NGATS) expect
Avionics
Universal introduces the 890R, a retrofit cockpit that sizzles
Universal Avionics of Tucson, Ariz., has been quietly strengthening its foothold in the cockpit retrofit market, branching out with a variety of available
Aircraft
Diamond DA-42 certification marks G1000 cockpit debut
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) last month certified the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system as part of the type certificate for the Diamond
Avionics
Patco Is Alive if Not So Well
In 1981 President Reagan fired virtually all aircraft traffic controllers and banned them from reapplying for controller jobs after their union, the Profes
Rotorcraft
Eurocopter seeks OK for IFR approaches to hover
Eurocopter is making further strides toward its aim of certifying a helicopter to make IFR approaches to a hover, over a given point on the ground and at a
Avionics
Surviving, with a little help from technology
“Because it is there.”
If ever there was a case of a reporter taking a quote out of context, this is it.
If ever there was a case of a reporter taking a quote out of context, this is it.
ATC
RVSM remains a challenge for many
With only about 15 months left to go before the start of domestic reduced vertical separation minimums (DRVSM) in the U.S., the clock is ticking for busine
Avionics
Light-plane avionics star at AEA Convention
With all the recent talk about glass cockpits migrating to light airplanes, it has been an exciting 12 months not only for GA pilots and aviation enthus
Avionics
Software update packs more into FlightLogic
Recent improvements and upgrades to the software that drives Chelton’s FlightLogic synthetic-vision EFIS have been keeping the company’s R&D engineerin
Avionics
EVS Certified in GIVs with Honeywell SPZ 8000 Avionics
Responding to customer requests, Gulfstream is now offering the Kollsman infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) to owners and operators of GIVs outfitted wi
Aircraft
Cessna’s CJ3 Now Comes Standard with FMS Performance Database
Cessna last month announced that all Citation CJ3s will now be equipped from the factory with a standard FMS performance database, providing takeoff and la
Avionics
Garmin Renaming UPSAT CNX80 Navigator the GNS 480
In an effort to streamline its GPS/navcom product line, Garmin will rename the CNX80 navigator the GNS 480, according to a spokesman.
Avionics
EMS Technologies Installs High-speed-data Satcom in a Helicopter
In what is claimed to be a first, EMS Technologies last month said that an AMT-50 multi-channel satcom antenna and HSD-128 high-speed data terminal have be
Avionics
Arinc Tests Jam-resistant GPS Landing System
Arinc has flight tested a new differential-GPS precision approach and landing system designed to withstand electronic jamming.
Avionics
Weather data provider hones its service menuMeteorlogix targets bizav with mix of ground-based, airborne services
Weather data specialist Meteorlogix is stepping up efforts to get its line of aviation-related products out in front of corporate pilots.
ATC
Embry-Riddle launches ADS-B technology trial
By this summer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University expects that the flight-training fleets at its Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz.
ATC
LAAS on back burner, but WAAS is heating up
The FAA’s decision to relegate the GPS Cat 1 local-area augmentation system (LAAS) to a mere R&D program (AIN, March 2004, page 1)
Avionics
Jeppesen, Arinc collaborate on flight-plan uplink for bizjets
Jeppesen and Arinc Direct are pooling their resources to give corporate aviation customers the ability to uplink flight plans directly to an airplane’s fli
Regulations and Government
Washington Report: FAA Helps Cast a Wider WAAS Net
For the first couple of months this year, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey has been the most peripatetic agency head in recent years, making extended trips
Avionics
Amazing OLEDs could challenge LCDs
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), a revolutionary new technology being applied to the production of commercial flat-panel displays, took center stage a
Avionics
RVSM STCs for Conquest and Beechjet/MU-300
West Star Aviation of Grand Junction, Colo., has started work on obtaining group RVSM approval for the Cessna 441 Conquest II.
Avionics
New software required for Garmin Xponder
Owners of Garmin GTX 330 and 330D transponders, which the FAA said are installed in about 1,300 airplanes, must upgrade the equiptment with new software (v
Regulations and Government
FAA To Mandate ADS-B Equipage by 2020
The FAA today issued a notice of proposed rulemaking
Avionics
Honeywell demonstrates RNP approach to MMU
Honeywell last month gave the first flight demonstrations of an RNP (required navigation performance) approach being developed at Morristown Municipal Airp
Avionics
Glass cockpits for Sikorsky S-61
Acrohelipro and Carson helicopters are outfitting the first two of Carson’s Sikorsky S-61 fleet with Sagem Avionics’ integrated cockpit display system retr
Avionics
EC 135 avionics package STC’d
Air Methods’ products division has received an STC for its Eurocopter EC 135 single-pilot IFR avionics package and plans to make it available on the EC 145
