Avionics

Passengers can make calls and send texts using their own smartphone numbers.

Testing has reached a stable output of 1.4 Mbps “over a significant period of time.”

With fly-by-wire active control sidesticks and touchscreen-controlled avionics, the Symmetry flight deck is clean and uncluttered.

The new technology is required to operate in portions of airspace above Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

City of Phoenix pushes to reverse FAA airspace changes.

The U.S. Navy will begin low-rate initial production of an infrared search and track capability for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

Satcom1 has updated its AvioPhone application to allow passengers to use their personal iPhone and Android phones without the need for a picocell system.

The system promises speeds of up to 75 Mbps, about 50 percent faster than Inmarsat’s upcoming GX satcom system.

FAA certification for the Max-Viz 1400 is expected next year.

The GX Aviation high-speed broadband satcom service is set to launch “early in the second half of 2015.”

Weight-saving solution is based on two CMC EFBs and one iPad.

The upgrade, with innovative man-machine interface, will be available for new helicopters and as a retrofit.

Standards organizations RTCA and the European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment signed a memorandum of cooperation.

Universal Avionics InSight Integrated Flight Deck

HUDs are proven effective at raising a pilot’s situational awareness.

Elbit’s ClearVision Enhanced Vision System and SkyLens Wearable HUD

Worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales amounted to $614.4 million in the third quarter.

The app now offer performance-planning capability.

When used with these ADS-B receivers, the app provides access to ADS-B IN weather reports, notams, TFRs and Pireps.

The partnership has selected Genesys Aerosystems of Mineral Wells, Texas, to provide its S-Tec 5000 digital autopilot for the NC212i.

Included in the contract are a Quasar ceiling dome light and Quasar II wash lighting.

Elbit Unveils Developments

The Tucson, Arizona-based company becomes the latest to offer a Part 25 avionics suite, centered on its new EFI-1040 flight displays.

Bombardier Refreshes Challenger Jet Family With 650 Launch

With the HawkEye 7200 nearby, users can connect to iPads and iPhones using Bluetooth and send and receive messages and forms, such as flight plans.

Synthetic vision should be good for more than just drawing pretty pictures of the outside world on a PFD.

Meets global ADS-B Out requirements by leveraging existing equipment to reduce costly flight management system and cockpit display upgrades.

Upgrade builds on the twinjet’s current flight management system and control display units.

New apps include Pilot Gateway and My-Maintainer.

Gogo’s UCS 5000 in-flight entertainment system provides Wi-Fi.