ATC

The French ministries of transport and defense have planned a global navigation satellite system (GNSS)/Loran C user information day on July 1 in Paris.

Raytheon Systems has sold two radars to HungaroControl, the Hungarian air navigation services provider, and four to the Sultanate of Oman.

Boeing has delivered its first 737-800 equipped with a new type of GPS-based landing system developed by Rockwell Collins.

The statistics tell the story.

The six-ton, London-double-decker-bus-size Inmarsat-4 communications satellite that Inmarsat launched in late March has taken over satcom transmission rout

To prioritize and promote unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the United Kingdom, the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) and the Unmanned Aerial

Proponents of commercial operations with single-engine aircraft in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) have been frustrated once again by seemingly

European Commission vice president Jacques Barrot and Eurocontrol director general Victor Aguado came to the show yesterday to announce the go-ahead for a

Honeywell is warning lawmakers in Washington to stop stalling over plans for air traffic management (ATM) funding.

Air traffic control students have had access to a broad range of simulators at the French national civil aviation school Enac for a year now.

Boeing’s delivery in May of a 737-800 airliner certified for the global navigation satellite landing system (GLS) marked the culmination of a 10-year devel

The User Request Evaluation Tool (URET), a conflict-detection tool that automatically detects and advises air traffic controllers of predicted conflicts be

The two federal government labor unions that represent air traffic controllers and employees of the National Weather Service (NWS) have asked the FAA to re

While safety is at the top of her list of priorities, new Transportation Secretary Mary Peters told the third annual FAA International Aviation Safety Foru

Like the proverbial cat with nine lives, loran has once more rebounded from attempts on its life.

Balancing available technology with the inevitable shifts in what governments will spend to achieve incremental gains, it’s tough to say what the air traff

Last year, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported a record 24.8-percent increase in traffic in the Middle East and a 50-percent growth

Although very light jets (VLJ) will be operating at the same altitudes (including RVSM airspace) as and mingling with airliners and larger business jets, t

The Airbus A380 Wake Vortex Steering Group recently issued new recommendations for A380 wake turbulence spacing.

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AIN has learned that FAA officials are considering the introduction of TCAS-III to meet collision-avoidance needs when large unmanned aircraft start

Lockheed Martin announced its bidding team for the FAA’s nationwide automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) program.

Pratt & Whitney has announced upgrades to both its venerable JT8D engine and the PW4000 high bypass ratio turbofan.

While speakers at the Air Traffic Control Association’s annual convention in Washington in October discussed a wide range of ATC technologies, both current

Perhaps contrary to the impressions of outsiders, flying business aircraft into and within the Middle East is not difficult.

The Asia/Pacific region is pioneering the large-scale deployment of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), a technology that promises to repla

Snecma Services is looking forward to establishing a new CFM56 engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) shop in India.

It would take a miracle–in fact, two miracles–for network-centric operations (NCO) to become a reality.

The vision of a future air navigation system developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) at the beginning of the 1990s has taken a lo

Dramatic reductions in approach minimums at terrain-challenged airports are among the more spectacular results of applying RNP-Rnav.