CMC Electronics is buoyed by recent selections of its new infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS), satellite communications antennas and electronic flight bags (EFB) by airframe manufacturers, as well as by what it envisions as a promising business outlook. The Montreal-based subsidiary of Esterline is also here introducing its new president, Greg Yeldon, who...
moreCMC Electronics is buoyed by recent selections of its new infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS), satellite communications antennas and electronic flight bags (EFB) by airframe manufacturers, as well as by what it envisions as a promising business outlook. The Montreal-based subsidiary of Esterline is also here introducing its new president, Greg Yeldon, who...
moreFlight Options plans to equip most of its fleet of fractionally owned business jets with Aircell’s high-speed Internet system, a decision that will give the company’s aircraft owners and jet card customers in-flight Wi-Fi access anywhere over the continental U.S.The first installations are due to begin later this year and continue through 2011. Flight...
moreHoneywell said it has received European TSO approval for Primus Elite, a newly introduced display system that is intended to provide an upgrade path for aircraft equipped with early versions of the avionics maker’s Primus cockpit screens.Primus Elite converts the existing CRT displays to more reliable and capable active-matrix LCDs. The LCD displays, which...
moreA tectonic shift in the rulemaking practice of the FAA occurred, almost unnoticed, on January 16 of this year. Before that date, the agency would introduce and then implement equipage plans and procedures–TCAS, RVSM, TAWS, ADS-B were examples–that it felt were timely for the aviation community. Industry comments were always invited, but everyone knew that...
morePanasonic Avionics yesterday introduced what it calls a “global communications suite” designed to provide world leader head-of-state aircraft with the ultimate in airborne connectivity. Branded as eXConnect and eXPhone, the Ku-band satellite services will make their debut in a Boeing Business Jet within the coming weeks. Additional customer discussions are...
moreJeppesen and Satcom Direct announced Monday a teaming relationship that allows each company to sell a bundled solution to their customers that combines flight planning services and cockpit communications.Jeppesen’s JetPlan flight-planning and filing services are accessed via the JetPlan.com Web interface. Customers can also access the JetPlan databases,...
moreFlight-tracking and data provider Passur Aerospace is here at NBAA promoting its full line of flight information products, anchored by a database of decision-making software powered by a growing international network of passive radars at more than 110 airports worldwide. The company (Booth No. 4619) offers both information and decision algorithms to supply...
moreInternational Communications Group (Booth No. 4229) has partnered with Cobham to develop a bundled Iridium and Inmarsat SwiftBroadband satellite communications system called Sora that the companies claim is lighter, smaller and less expensive than a similar competing system made available earlier this year by Aircell and Thrane & Thrane.
Sora will combine...
moreRockwell Collins introduced a Pro Line 4 to Pro Line 21 upgrade for the Falcon 2000 that replaces the airplane’s original CRT screens with a suite of four 8- by 10-inch LCDs.
The upgrade adds capabilities for XM satellite weather, electronic charts, enhanced display of TAWS, radar, TCAS and EVS, improved moving maps and Waas LPV approach capability.
The...
moreDassault has selected a cockpit upgrade from Exton, Pa.-based Innovative Solutions & Support that is designed to bring a host of advanced capabilities to Falcon 2000 and 2000EX models originally delivered with Rockwell Collins Pro Line 4 avionics.IS&S announced Monday here at the convention that Dassault is developing a supplemental type certificate...
moreHoneywell received European TSO approval for Primus Elite, a newly introduced display system that is intended to provide an upgrade path for aircraft equipped with early versions of the avionics maker’s Primus cockpit screens. The LCD-based Primus Elite display systems can slide into the holes of CRTs in Primus 1000/2000/XP, SPZ-8400/8500 and some SPZ-8000...
moreHoneywell has started flight testing a technology that merges the view of an infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) with that of a synthetic-vision system (SVS) to give pilots a new way of seeing the world at night or in poor visibility. The company said it has completed about 25 hours of evaluations in a Cessna Citation V and a Sovereign fitted with...
moreGarmin (Booth No. 2853) yesterday introduced an integrated avionics system for light turbine-powered airplanes called G3000 that sets itself apart by using menu-driven touchscreens for accessing nearly all of the functions that pilots normally control with a myriad of buttons and dials.
Intended for the upper echelon of the Part 23 business aircraft...
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