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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ten years ago, in 2000, a slide presentation at a Washington aviation conference illustrated 12 distinct benefits of ADS-B: the “backbone of NextGen,” as i

The FAA last month responded to the RTCA Industry NextGen Implementation Task Force’s recommendations for the transition to NextGen.

The U.S.

For many, multilateration (sometimes abbreviated Mlat) is one of those vague ATC terms that is always hard to define.

The FAA has commissioned the first implementation of a new generation of precision runway monitor (PRM) equipment at Detroit/Wayne Airport (DTW), to permit

A tectonic shift in the rulemaking practice of the FAA occurred, almost unnoticed, on January 16 of this year.

When the Australians decide to go for something, they really go for it.

There is now a strong need to counter adverse public perceptions of business aviation, said incoming president and CEO Sam Barone at the Canadian Business

Testifying before Congress in May, Stanford University professor Brad Parkinson–the chief architect of GPS and the original GPS program manager before his

GPS service is in danger of severe erosion, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

With the introduction of the second phase of the Single European Sky (SES II), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will greatly increase its scope b

The removal in February of Loran-C and eLoran funding from President Obama’s proposed budget has drawn strong protest from the UK over the sudden U.S.

The US Airways flight that splashed down safely in the Hudson River drew renewed attention to the longstanding problem of birdstrikes.

Taking a major step ahead of the U.S., the European Commission (EC) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) announcing its intent to mandate carr

Rich Gage, who relinquished his position as president and CEO at CBAA in October, will become a member of Nav Canada’s board of directors in April.

At the Air Traffic Control Association’s annual November Convention in Washington, FAA director of surveillance and broadcast services Vincent Capezutto ad

A September ICAO NextGen/Sesar Forum in Montreal underscored the fact that the U.S.

How times change.

This TSA NPRM could have a profound effect on the American pilots who fly aircraft with an mtow of more than 12,500 pounds.

Here’s what it inclu

Rich Gage has stepped down from his post as president and CEO of the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) with the expiration of his eight-year co