Content Archive: August 2008

Avionics

Avionics Update: Avidyne demonstrates Nexcom digital radio

As part of the FAA’s Nexcom initiative to develop next-generation digital datalink radios for general aviation, Avidyne last month announced it has success
ATC

Avionics Update: Arinc's digital ATIS package aimed at smaller airports

You’ve probably never given it much thought, but recording and updating those ATIS voice messages is a royal pain in the neck for controllers.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Teledyne acquires Spirent business unit

Teledyne Technologies, the parent company of Teledyne Controls and Teledyne Continental Motors, last month closed a deal to buy Spirent’s Aviation Informat
ATC

Controllers blast FAA over staffing shortage

A shortage of controllers at Chicago Center and an uptick in air traffic in that sector are a prescription for disaster that the FAA has so far ignored at
Avionics

Flaws cited in Hawker weather-radar radome

An apparent design problem with the airborne weather radar radomes in Hawker business jets could prevent the radars from accurately painting storm cells ah
Aircraft

Regionals Update: ALPA foils US Airways' plans for CRJ705

Unable to convince the Air Line Pilots Association to accept further regional-airline scope-clause concessions, US Airways has converted its firm order for

Regionals Update: United moves to shore up regional network

United Airlines completed a series of moves last month that signaled not only its intention to embark on a large-scale expansion of its regional network, b

Regionals Update: ERA chief blasts EC for lack of 'business like' practices

Mike Ambrose, director general of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA), slammed the European Commission last month for a failure to apply basic b