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Avionics Update: Collins Pro Line 21 Continuum certified in Citation III

Rockwell Collins announced that its Pro Line 21 Continuum retrofit cockpit system has been certified in the Cessna Citation III, bringing to six the total
Avionics

Avionics Update: Collins tests first multi-mode microwave receiver

The first fully integrated multi-mode receiver (MMR) for use with microwave landing systems completed a series of successful test flights recently.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Airbus to offer Honeywell FMS in ACJ

Airbus Industrie has added the Honeywell Pegasus FMS to the options list in the Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ).
Avionics

Avionics Update: Socata picks Honeywell FIS

Socata plans to equip all new TBM 700 turboprops and Trinidad piston singles with Honeywell Bendix/King flight information service (FIS) hardware, bringing
Avionics

Avionics Update: Avidyne introduces weather for FlightMax

Avidyne’s FlightMax multifunction displays will soon be able to receive text and graphic weather information, transmitted to the airplane through the Orbco
Avionics

Avionics Update: Icarus introduces Iridium satphone

Icarus Instruments of Tokoma Park, Md., has introduced SatTalk II, a low-cost satcom system that uses the Iridium network of satellites to route calls arou
Avionics

Avionics Update: Qualcomm, Globalstar demonstrate airborne web technology

Neither company has a product that it intends to put on the market anytime soon, but both Qualcomm and Globalstar are demonstrating a satellite-based airbo
ATC

Bizav may be tapped to lead Free Flight tests

Despite recent events, the FAA is continuing its modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS), and controller-pilot datalink communication (CPDLC) r
ATC

DOT warns of serious risks to GPS signals

To counter the possibility of jammed and  “spoofed” signals, the authors of a U.S.
Rotorcraft

NYC helo operators fight for their future

The cancellation on October 12 of the three-mile temporary flight restriction (TFR 9841) encircling the World Trade Center, which had closed New York City’
Rotorcraft

CHC Scotia pilots win major North Sea wage concession

Averting a strike that would have shut down offshore helicopter operations throughout much of the North Sea, 200 helicopter pilots represented by the Briti
Safety

Rescue squabble revives NYC police, fire rivalry

On March 25, 1911, the worst factory fire in the history of New York City erupted in the three floors occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in a tall
Safety

Safe Flight's device warns of 'hot' power lines

After three years of development and testing, Safe Flight Instrument’s “Powerline Detector” system for helicopters received FAA supplemental type certifica
Rotorcraft

Did newscopters skirt FAA ENG ban?

FAA enforcers are pondering whether to press charges in the wake of a November 7 incident in which some Dallas-area TV stations apparently bent (but, they
Accidents

Rotorcraft Update: Nepalese princess killed in helicopter crash

Just a few months after her estranged husband was fatally shot along with eight other members of the Nepalese royal family, Princess Prekshya Shah, 49, was
Safety

Rotorcraft Update: Tail cracks detected on MD 600Ns

MD Helicopters of Mesa, Ariz., said five MD 600Ns have exhibited cracks in the tailcone attachment area, and that an inspection bulletin is forthcoming to
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Third AB139 takes off

The third and final pre-production Bell/Agusta AB139 has begun its flight-test program at Agusta’s Vergiate plant in Italy.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: NASA panel recommends a return to V-22 flight test

In an independent assessment of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor program conducted by NASA at the request of the U.S.
Regulations and Government

Washington Report: FAA issues final FOQA rule

In what it called a major step toward reaching its “Safer Skies” goal of cutting the commercial aviation accident rate by 80 percent by 2007, the FAA has i
Regulations and Government

Washington Report: AMASS 1, accidents 0

Air traffic controllers at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) are already hailing the airport movement area safety system (Amass) as an aviation suc
Regulations and Government

Washington Report: FAA names new security boss

Retired Rear Adm.
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: December 2001

What with anthrax scares shutting down congressional office buildings for purification and cleansing, and both houses tossing brickbats at each other over
Accidents

Final Report: Unstabilized approach led to crash

BOEING 737-200, PATNA, INDIA, JULY 17, 2000–What causes a flight crew to lose control of their aircraft, without mechanical failure as a c
Accidents

Final Report: A hard day's night

EMBRAER ERJ-145LR, ROANOKE, VA, OCT.
Charter & Fractional

Avolar’s big bizjet buy boosts its fractional bet

Avolar, the budding stand-alone fractional business jet division of UAL Corp., stepped up its launch effort last month with a pair of new aircraft orders–d
Airports

Lawmakers can still sink Meigs/O’Hare airport pact

A fragile and intricate set of deals last month promise to keep Meigs Field (CGX) open until 2026, but the Illinois General Assembly could still reverse th
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options, Travel Air combine

Flight Options and Raytheon Aircraft are combining their fractional-ownership programs into a new company in which the “new” Flight Options will hold 50.1
Training and Workforce

CAE buys simuflite

Late last month CAE was expected to acquire SimuFlite Training International.
Regulations and Government

Metro flight restrictions eased

Late last month the FAA issued several Notams eliminating enhanced Class B airspace and reducing the dimension of the temporary flight restriction areas in