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Avionics

LightSquared: GPS Community Has No Legal Gripe

In a formal submission to the FCC on Wednesday, LightSquared asserted that the GPS community has no legal standing to complain about interference.
ATC

Legal, Financial and Technical Minefield Threatens LightSquared’s Grand Plans

LightSquared is coming under pressure from several separate directions.
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ATC

FAA Remains Quiet on Eram Budget Overruns, Delays

As NextGen’s chassis, Eram is crucial to future of ATC
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ATC

Aviation System Blocks To Improve Air Traffic Management

In preparation for its 12th Air Navigation Conference (ANC) this month
Regulations and Government

LightSquared Threatens To Sue, But Whom Would It Sue?

Clearly impatient with the way the company’s plan for its nationwide broadband Internet project
Safety

IBAC: IS-BAO proves valuable investment

Many years ago, airline managers could occasionally be heard quietly grumbling that investments in safety were mostly a waste of money.
ATC

GPS/Cellphone Jammers Also Snarl Aviation Navigation Systems

Several years ago, when satellites were being touted as aviation’s sole means of navigation from takeoff to touchdown, former FAA Administrator Langhorne B
ATC

GAO: NextGen costs skyrocket

When Congress in 2003 signed off on the Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act–better known as Vision 100–it officially set in motion the Next Generation
Regulations and Government

ICAO wrangles ATM, NextGen, emissions issues

ICAO’s two-week Assembly in Montreal in late September/early October covered much new ground as senior representatives from the world’s nations got to grip
ATC

IG criticizes FAA action on ADS-B

In an October report titled “FAA faces significant risks in implementing the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast program and realizing benefits,” th
ATC

Swim–a look inside NextGen’s own future private Intranet

If NextGen were an upcoming movie, Swim–for system-wide information management (Swim)–would get top billing for its leading role, and would certainly pick
Safety

New technology targets FOD

It has been more than 10 years since an Air France Concorde crashed shortly after takeoff at Paris Charles De Gaulle.
ATC

Trajectory-based ops pair new tech and flying basics

Now that we’ve all gotten accustomed to acronyms like Rnav, RNP, LPV and all the others, the next big game changer will be TBO, for trajectory-based operat
ATC

Navigating NextGen

Ask any politician or media person what NextGen is and what it will do,
and the chances are that the answers will include three common themes.