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Airports

Touching Bases: Report cites need for better tower comms

A Flight Safety Foundation publication cites a report from the John A.
Airports

Touching Bases: Suit filed against airport expansion

Residents of Stuart, Fla., have filed a lawsuit against the Martin County Commission concerning a master plan that discusses increased capacity.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Execair opens an FBO in Prague

Growing European FBO group Execair has opened a new facility at Prague Ruzyne Airport in the Czech Republic.
Airports

Touching Bases: Oakland International Airport sees bizav influx

According to FBO KaiserAir, business jet traffic at Oakland International Airport has increased at least 25 percent since September 11.
Training and Workforce

Touching Bases: NATA acquires Aviation Training Institute

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has acquired the Aviation Training Institute (ATI) from Denver-based Aviation Resource Group Internation
Airports

Touching Bases: Santa Monica ups noise fine to $10,000

Last month, the Santa Monica city council adopted an ordinance that increased the fines for repeat violations of the Santa Monica Airport noise abatement p
Security

Leading Edge: New NBAA chair selects security as priority

Tell us about the new security committee.It is basically a combination of the Corporate Aviation Management Committee and the
Rotorcraft

Newscopters back on the air after frustrating restrictions

It took a deadly act of terrorism to knock the nation’s fleet of electronic newsgathering (ENG) helicopters out of the air and, ironically, it required ano
Rotorcraft

British International thinks big with scheduled tiltrotor service

British International has ambitions to introduce scheduled services in the UK within the next 10 years using the proposed Bell/Agusta BA619 tiltrotor airli
Rotorcraft

Putting it on the line: Koala proves its salt at Life Flight

For the helicopter owner, operator or flight program looking to cut costs while simultaneously maintaining or expanding existing levels of service, Agusta’
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Helicopters haul mountaintop privies

There are some jobs only helicopters can do.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Powers get power from new Turbomeca engines

Agusta has delivered the first A109E Power to be driven by Turbomeca’s newly FAA-certified Arrius 2K1 engines to Erie, Pa.-based aeromedical transport prov
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Portugal goes for a gaggle of EH 101s

AgustaWestland scored a big win last month with the sale of 12 new search-and-rescue (SAR)-configured EH 101 helicopters to the Portuguese government.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Helos for homeland defense

It’s a sad fact of economic life that there is often opportunity in tragedy, and while some helicopter industry leaders aren’t necessarily looking to cash
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: ...as civil tiltrotor development slips

Despite the fact that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67A engines are installed on the first BA609 prototype tiltrotor, Bell is letting the development
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Layoffs continue at Bell...

Coping with a slowdown in both commercial and military sales, Bell Helicopter has laid off 45 more nonunion employees, bringing to 800 the number of jobs i
Accidents

Rotorcraft Update: Milwaukee ENG helicopter crash claims pilot

A Robinson R44 operated by Milwaukee TV station WISN crashed late in the afternoon of December 12, killing its pilot, 47-year-old John Michael Wilson, and
ATC

Boeing’s ATC initiative offers enhanced security, capacity

When Boeing rolled out its new ATC management system last summer, a satellite-based arrangement that takes a significantly different direction from the FAA
Avionics

Thales chief commits to improve aviation security

From his Paris office thousands of miles away François Lureau was as horrified by what he saw on September 11 as the millions of Americans who watched on t
ATC

Future approaches to usher in an entire new set of acronyms

Before GPS, approach classifications were cut and dried–they were either precision (ILS) or nonprecision approaches.
Avionics

CMC accelerates pace of enhanced vision testing

With the ink still fresh on the paperwork certifying the installation of the $500,000 enhanced vision system (EVS) from Gulfstream and Kollsman, rival avio
Security

Ground handlers tighten security

Staff members at Jeppesen’s International Trip Planning Services centers in the U.S.
Avionics

Honeywell digital radios set to make bizav debut

Honeywell’s aerospace electronic systems group is beginning the year by unveiling new technology that holds the promise of doing to conventional navcom rad
Avionics

Collins proves Cat III-capable MLS for its multi-mode receiver

Rockwell Collins announced the successful completion of microwave landing system (MLS) Category IIIb approach tests in the U.S.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Collins starts trials of Challenger 601 with retrofit Pro Line 21

A Challenger 601 equipped with the Pro Line 21 Continuum avionics system from Rockwell Collins has completed initial flight tests, said the company.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Connexion future uncertain as airlines back out

Boeing’s planned Connexion airborne broadband data service was dealt a damaging blow last month when its three largest customers–American Airlines, Delta A
Avionics

Avionics Update: Garmin developing integrated cockpit

Garmin has made a name for itself in aviation in the last decade by developing a popular lineup of navigation and communication equipment for GA aircraft.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Talk is cheap with Blue Sky Network satcom

San Diego-based Blue Sky Network, a developer of low-cost airborne voice and data satcom services for business aviation, now expects to have its first satc