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WSI wx coverage goes global

October 20, 2009

WSI has rolled out the Fusion 2.2 version of its online software service, which provides worldwide information on changing flight, airport and airspace conditions. The company reported  that Version 2.2 offers expanded international tracking of lightning information, satellite-derived tropical “pseudo-radar” imagery of convective activity and projected...

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Honeywell’s SmartRunway, SmartLanding Are TSO’d

October 20, 2009

Honeywell’s new SmartRunway and SmartLanding technologies have received FAA Technical Standard Order approval. The approval clears the way for installation of the new products as software upgrades to the company’s Mark V and Mark VII enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). Installation takes one hour, according to a spokesman.

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Luma Tech brings LED to King Air cockpits

October 20, 2009

Luma Technologies (Booth No. 3583) has introduced a suite of integrated LED displays for King Airs. The product is designed to replace aging and problematic incandescent caution/warning panels.Currrent OEM panels, according to Luma, are based on a traditional legacy-style design dating back to the general aviation boom in the mid-1960s when the King Air and...

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Alto in Concert with Honeywell

October 20, 2009

Honeywell has chosen Alto Aviation (Booth No. 4838) to supply components for the sound system in Honeywell’s Ovation Select, the cabin-management system recently chosen by Embraer for its Legacy 450/500 business jets. Alto’s digital amplifier was co-developed with Honeywell to integrate seamlessly into Ovation Select, making the most of Alto’s acoustic...

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Flight Display unveils new cabin management retrofit

October 20, 2009

Flight Display Systems, the little guy in the cabin electronics business with a focus on the retrofit display market, is ready for the big time.At a press conference here this morning at 10 a.m., Flight Display (Booth No. 4484) is to formally introduce its Select cabin management system (CMS) as a retrofit package. According to company president David Gray,...

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Sandel helicopter TAWS takes flight

October 20, 2009

Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif., has begun pre-certification flight testing of a helicopter-specific terrain avoidance warning system based on its fixed-wing class-A TAWS. The system, HTAWS, will meet or exceed performance for any current class-B TAWS for helicopters, company founder and president Gerry Block told NBAA Convention News. Initial flight...

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ACSS sees brighter skies ahead

October 20, 2009

ACSS, the Phoenix-based surveillance and reconnaissance technology division of L-3 Communications (Booth No. 4000), is at NBAA’09 showcasing a number of new developments. These include new TCAS II traffic and collision avoidance system software, selection of its latest TCAS II system by Embraer, enhanced terrain avoidance warning system (TAWS) functionality...

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Innotech Sky Berry system now OK’d for installations

October 20, 2009

Innotech Aviation has received a supplemental type certificate for its new Sky Berry system that gives business aircraft operators and their passengers a low-cost way to wirelessly receive and transmit data on their PDAs. Sky Berry uses a router provided by International Communications Group. The first system has already been installed on a Hawker 800.The...

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Nextant moving quickly on Beechjet upgrade program

October 20, 2009

Announcement of certification of the Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 flight deck in the Beechjet 400A/XP led the news at Nextant Aerospace’s NBAA press conference yesterday. The Pro Line 21 retrofit, part of Nextant’s upgrade and planned remanufacture of the popular light jet, consists of two large LCD primary flight displays and one large LCD multifunction...

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Guardian Mobility Wins STC for GPS Tracking Device

October 20, 2009

Guardian Mobility’s Guardian 3i GPS tracking device has gained a Transport Canada supplemental type certificate on Beech 1900C and 1900D turboprops and will be installed in the fleet of Northern Thunderbird Air, which offers scheduled and nonscheduled air charter services in the Pacific Northwest. Bill Hesse of Northern Thunderbird said, “We chose Guardian...

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EMS Sky Connect’s new Forte: e-mail

October 19, 2009

Has your smart phone become an indispensable means of instant communication? If so, EMS Sky Connect, a division of EMS Technologies (Booth No. 4489), has the Christmas gift for you: unfettered in-flight access, “pole-to-pole, anywhere on the globe.”Sky Connect calls the service Forte AirMail and announced its launch yesterday here at NBAA. The system uses...

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Garmin G3000 Brings Touchscreens to the Cockpit

October 19, 2009

Garmin this afternoon introduced an integrated avionics system for light turbine-powered airplanes. Dubbed G3000, the new system sets itself apart by using menu-driven touchscreens for accessing nearly all of the functions that pilots normally control with myriad buttons and dials. Intended for the upper echelon of the Part 23 business aircraft market, the...

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Aircell Unveils Stand-alone Airborne High-speed Internet

October 06, 2009

Airborne communications provider Aircell today unveiled its new ATG 5000 high-speed Internet unit for the business aviation market. The lightweight, “affordable” system delivers high-speed Internet service via the Aircell network and was designed specifically for aircraft operators who don’t require the integrated voice, narrowband data and network neutral...

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Rockwell Collins Preps Fusion for SVS Testing

October 01, 2009

Rockwell Collins plans to start flight trials early next week of the software load that will add a synthetic-vision presentation to the Pro Line Fusion avionics system in the company’s Challenger 601. Testing begun earlier this year aboard the Challenger and a Bombardier Global Express XRS centered on evaluations of the Fusion cockpit displays, integrated...

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