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Indonesia Grounds More Airlines AAP reports that Indonesia has grounded four small airlines, giving them three months to improve safety standards or face a ban, a transport ministry spokesman said Oct. 14. The country's quarterly safety audit found that Pura Wisata Baruna, Sampoerna Air Nusantara,...
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin deploy new air traffic systems at four major US airports
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), which supplies advanced technology systems, and Raytheon (NYSE:RTN), a provider of defence and homeland security technology, have been working together to update air traffic systems at four US airports. The Raytheon-Lockheed Martin team have developed and installed automated...
FAA, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Install Modernized Air Traffic Systems to Serve Four Major Airports
Controllers in Chicago, Denver, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Now Using New Systems ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Controllers serving four major U.S. airports are now using terminal air traffic control systems modernized by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon . As part of the Federal Aviation...
South Florida Gets ADS-B
Pilots flying in aircraft equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast (ADS-B) avionics in South Florida now receive free traffic and weather information on their cockpit displays, marking the first time that pilots are able see the same traffic information as air traffic controllers. The display of traffic...
$500K approved for radar at airport
PROVO -- Citing safety issues and economic benefits, the Utah County Commission approved $500,000 in funding Tuesday for a radar at the Provo Municipal Airport. Utah County Commission unanimously voted to appropriate the $500,000 from the county's tourism, recreation, culture and convention tax to pay their agreed portion...
Not cleared to fly: worries about mid-air collisions keep civilian drones grounded.(Battlefield Surveillance)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SAN DIEGO -- Local governments and unmanned aircraft suppliers look forward to the day when legions of drones can fly over the national airspace to survey fires, spot displaced citizens in a natural disaster or pinpoint criminals in a police investigation. ...
Dulles Airport Gets Runway Safety Equipment
Washington Dulles is the latest airport to use satellite technology to move ground safety beyond the limits of radar. A new state-of-the-art system gives air traffic controllers in the Dulles International tower a more complete picture of activity on the ground, closing visual gaps and helping...
Air Transport News
Apr 14, 2008 D.J. Gribbin, general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation, testifying on the topic of airline delays before the U.S. House of Representatives committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said the DoT is focusing on some short-term goals while not losing sight of the long-term objectives of...
Outage reported at FAA radar facility
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
UPS first to use ADS-B
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration FAA approved United Parcel Service's UPS use of ADS-B technology for its flight operations at Louisville International Airport SDF, the first such use of satellite-guided merging and spacing during airport approaches in the United States. ADS-B, or Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, is a key component...
FAA backing Provo airport radar facility
PROVO -- Radar might be placed at the Provo Municipal Airport after all, but it might depend on whether the Utah Legislature is willing to provide $2 million. Nearly a year ago, the Federal Aviation Administration said Provo didn't qualify for radar, even though Provo and Salt Lake...
Can ADS-B work? How things might have been if we'd started from scratch with GPS, the current architecture, FAA's announced plans and the new proposal
Imagine: Your electronic map shows exactly where you are in relation to the nearest airports, navaids and airspace. Being GPS-based, the system behind that display knows exactly where you are in three-dimensional space to within the distance between your head and a big toe. Every other plane around you has...
Helping Aircraft Avoid Turbulence
A new turbulence detection system now under test is alerting pilots to patches of rough air as they fly through clouds. The system, designed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR and tested by United Airlines on commercial flights, is designed to better protect passengers...
Late flights blamed on old system
SFO Federal Aviation Administration officials are blaming an outdated air traffic control system for causing flight delays at airports nationwide, including at San Francisco International Airport. About 31 percent of the flights arriving at SFO in June and July were delayed, according to the U.S. Department of...
Outdated air traffic control system blamed for delays
SFO Federal Aviation Administration officials are blaming an outdated air traffic control system for causing flight delays at airports nationwide, including at San Francisco International Airport. About 31 percent of the flights arriving at SFO in June and July were delayed, according to the U.S. Department of...
Airport radar to be a blip in history
LOUISVILLE -- There's an unusual hush in the cockpit of the hulking UPS Boeing 767 as it begins its descent 127 miles and 35,000 feet above the airport here. Instead of a cacophony of air-traffic radio calls instructing the pilots which way to turn, the jet's...
Old man LDA: just a simple, straight-in approach in a basic Cessna 172. These are welcome factors when the procedure is a bit of an oddball
Your visit to see your sister in St. Louis has been everything you hoped for: the arch, the Cardinals, the free samples on the Anheuser-Busch tour. The only thing you need to make it complete is to give your sister the view of Old Man River from 1500 feet....
Safety News In Brief
Fifth Triennial International Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference October 29-November 1, 2007 Tropicana Casino-Resort Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. It's the fifth in a series of triennial conferences established to inform the international aviation community about recent, ongoing, and planned research activities in transport...
National Air Traffic Controllers Association says new control tower is understaffed
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The United States National Air Traffic Controllers Association has said that a new air traffic control tower dedicated by the Federal Aviation Administration FAA at Phoenix SkyHarbor International Airport does not have enough staff. The controller's association claims that the FAA is...
Controllers Say Staffing Inadequate at SkyHarbor, Mitigating the Effects of a New Tower
To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORSContact: Kevin Van Uden of PhoenixTRACON, +1-480-620-2470 or Steve Palmer of PhoenixTower, +1-602-540-7256 PHOENIX, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Federal Aviation Administration officially dedicated a new air traffic control tower on Wednesday at Phoenix SkyHarbor International Airport. Unfortunately, the Agency won't be able to take full advantage of...
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