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NextGen To Fuel Growth in Air Travel, FAA Says
March 09, 2010
The FAA said in its annual aviation forecast this morning that key airspace safety and modernization efforts contained in the Next Generation Air Transportation System will play a vital role in spurring long-term sustained growth in air travel and the nation’s overall economic health. Domestic mainline and regional airline enplanements are projected to...
moreADS-B Final Rule Hits Stumbling Blocks
March 09, 2010
The FAA’s long-promised April 10 release of its ADS-B final rule appears to have hit two bureaucratic stumbling blocks. For the agency to complete the process, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must sign off on the program’s financial aspects, an activity that usually takes 90 days. Unfortunately, although FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt...
moreNext-Gen FMS Being Flight Tested on Gulfstream G650
March 04, 2010
Honeywell’s next-generation flight management system (NGFMS) is currently undergoing flight testing on the Gulfstream G650 and was tested during the Boeing 747-8 first flight last month. “The NGFMS provides all of the capability to meet requirements for improving air traffic management through decreased separation and more direct routing,” said Honeywell...
moreCFM Opens New CFM56 Training Center in Hyderabad
March 02, 2010
CFM International today formally opened a new CFM56 training center in Hyderabad, India, satisfying a commitment made to its customers in 2007. The Hyderabad complex–the fourth such engine maintenance training center for CFM56 customers worldwide–holds the capacity to train 500 engineers annually and mirrors facilities in China, France, and the U.S.
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moreFAA Sets Record Straight on Ski Slot Allocation
March 01, 2010
Data from the FAA debunks the myth that fractional operators grab most of the holiday slots at the Colorado mountain airports, namely Eagle, Aspen and Rifle Airports. For the most recent holiday season (December 19 to January 4), fractionals accounted for 455 of the 1,467 slots at Aspen, which equates to 31 percent; 409 of 1,121 at Eagle (36 percent); and...
moreTrueNorth puts focus on apps, not hardware
March 01, 2010
Following supplementary type certification of its Simphone OpenCabin airborne telecommunications system for Bombardier’s Global business jet line, TrueNorth Avionics says it is experiencing a run of orders and installations for its software-centric packages.
In the past year, TrueNorth telecommunications were selected for the U.S. Air Force fleet of some...
moreNZ-2000 users responding to FAA guidance
March 01, 2010
Business jet operators flying with Honeywell NZ-2000 flight management systems are responding to an FAA airworthiness bulletin describing a software glitch that could send airplanes to the wrong instrument arrival waypoint.
The FAA has issued special airworthiness information bulletins NM-10-12 and NM-10-13 to address an issue with software for NZ-2000...
moreAircell ATG-5000 Debuts in Gulfstream G200
March 01, 2010
Aircell announced the first installation of its ATG 5000 high-speed Internet system aboard a California-based Gulfstream G200 operated by charter provider FlightWorks. Gulfstream’s Dallas service center performed the hardware installation, which added a stand-alone ATG 5000 unit and two antennas on the aircraft belly. The ATG 5000 is designed to provide...
moreCobham HeliSAS Earns TSO
March 01, 2010
The FAA has issued a technical standard order to Cobham for its HeliSAS stability-and-augmentation/autopilot system. The two-axis HeliSAS autopilot is designed to reduce pilot workload by assisting with helicopter stability while also providing autopilot altitude hold, heading select and navigation sensor coupling. Cobham holds a supplemental type...
moreDeVos EC130 Flies with Max-Viz EVS-1500
March 01, 2010
One Sky Aviation, a maintenance and repair center based in Anchorage, Alaska, received an STC permitting installations of the Max-Viz EVS-1500 enhanced-vision system aboard the Eurocopter AS350 and EC130. The initial installation was performed by One Sky Aviation in an EC130 operated by Nelson AeroDynamiX of Traverse City, Mich., and owned by Dick DeVos,...
moreADS-B making life easier for Gulf helicopter pilots
March 01, 2010
Think working at New York Tracon is a tough job? Try heading down to the Gulf of Mexico, where controllers handle between 5,000 and 9,000 helicopter flights a day, all without the aid of surveillance radar.
The waters off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida might be an oasis of calm, but thanks to the oil business the activity in the...
morePC-based RVR system receives FAA approval
March 01, 2010
The FAA has approved Vaisala’s AviMet PC-based runway visual range (RVR) system for use by FAA ATC facilities in the U.S. AviMet is automated and uses Vaisala’s optical sensors to determine meteorological optical range and measure ambient light, and these are combined with data from a new light intensity monitor via data processing to deliver a calculated...
moreFAA embraces industry feedback on NextGen
March 01, 2010
The FAA last month responded to the RTCA Industry NextGen Implementation Task Force’s recommendations for the transition to NextGen. The agency had earlier invited the group–300 people recruited from all segments of the aviation industry–to propose optimum solutions to the mid-term, 2010 to 2018, transition to the full implementation of NextGen. The task...
moreThe Automation End Game Special Report
February 23, 2010
How cockpit autonomy will change flying forever
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