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L-3 Communications Acquiring
Opportunity in EVS
Marketplace
L-3 Communications says it
is acquiring Cincinnati
Electronics, partly to gain
access to the emerging
market for enhanced vision
systems.
ACSS Earns More Certifications for Collision Avoidance
Systems
ACSS, an L-3 Communications & Thales Company, says it
has received five more STCs (supplemental type
certifications) for its combined traffic and terrain
avoidance system.
RTCA ATM Advisory Committee Gives Its
Modernization Priorities to FAA
RTCA’s Air Traffic Management
Advisory Committee presented a list of modernization priorities to the FAA’s
Air Traffic Organization earlier this month. The ATO asked for industry’s
input, which has compiled air traffic experts from a cross section of U.S.
aviation interests, including aircraft manufacturers, service providers,
airlines, labor unions and trade associations.
Air Canada to Outsource Flight Data
Analysis with Teledyne Controls
Teledyne
Controls says that it will supply Air Canada with a remote flight
data analysis (FDA) service for over 100 of the carrier’s A320
family aircraft. The FDA to be used in the program was jointly
developed by Teledyne and the airline.
Weyerhaeuser Will Use Flightdocs Maintenance Tracking
Weyerhaeuser will use Flightdocs maintenance tracking service for its entire jet fleet of Falcons and Bell helicopters.
Smiths Detection and TeraView Developing
Hand-Held Screening Device
Smiths Detection
and TeraView have formed a strategic partnership
to co-develop a hand-held wand that uses
terahertz light waves to detect and identify
concealed weapons – even non-metallic ones – as
well as bulk and sheet explosives.
TSA Will Start
Registered Traveler Pilot Experiment at Five
Airports
The U.S.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it
will launch its Registered Traveler program on an
experimental basis with Northwest Airlines at
Minneapolis-St. Paul later this month. Checkpoint
operations should begin in early July.
Air Seychelles Will Use FlightVu Cockpit
Door Monitoring
Air Seychelles,
the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles will use a FlightVu
cockpit door monitoring system on its pair of B-767-300ERs.
ICAO to Hold Workshop on CNS/ATM Business Case Development
ARINC and Telenor Close to
Introducing Technology to Allow
Cell Phones Inflight
ARINC and Oslo-based Telenor say
they will soon begin marketing
new technology that will allow
airline passengers to use many
commonly-used mobile phones
aboard commercial flights.
ARINC and Satcom Direct Will
Jointly Offer Services to Business Aviation
ARINC
says it has formed a strategic business alliance with
Florida-based Satcom Direct to offer satellite voice, fax,
and Swift64 high-speed data communications services to
business aviation.
British Airways and Qantas Update Their
Sabre Slot Management System
British Airways and
Qantas have implemented the latest release of Sabre Airline Solutions’ slot
management system, which can help airline flight schedulers request and
maintain their slot portfolios.
ARINC
Previews New Airport Information System
ARINC and
its business partner, ADW Consultancy,
previewed a new airport interactive
information system at the recent 2004
Airports Council International (ACI)
Congress in Nice, France.
Edmonton Airport to Provide
Wireless Internet
Edmonton
will provide public wireless Internet access from Opti-Fi
Networks in its terminal for passengers, airport businesses and
the airport itself.
Lufthansa
Implements New Training Technology to Reduce
Costs
Lufthansa has
implemented Eedo
Knowledgeware Corporation’s authoring
and learning content management system to
increase the productively of its training
personnel.
Goodrich Introduces New Technology
for MD-80 Aircraft Noise Compliance
Goodrich says it, along with JET
Engineering, has improved the
technology of the MD-80 aircraft
engine exhaust nozzles it introduced
in 2003, to comply with current
international airport noise
requirements.
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L-3 Communications Acquiring Opportunity in EVS Marketplace
L-3 Communications says it is acquiring Cincinnati Electronics, partly to gain access to the emerging market for enhanced vision systems.
As part of its the transaction with L-3 Communications, Cincinnati Electronics has entered into a long-term supply and development agreement with CMC Electronics, Cincinnati Electronics' current owner, to supply current, and next generation, infrared sensors in support of CMC Electronics' commercial and government EVS program.
L-3 says it sees this relationship as providing it with an opportunity to partner with a leading avionics integrator in the nascent market of improving situational awareness for pilots. 06-18-2004. (Top)
ACSS Earns More Certifications for Collision Avoidance Systems
ACSS, an L-3 Communications & Thales Company, says it has received five more STCs (supplemental type certifications) for its combined traffic and terrain avoidance system.
The ACSS T˛CAS combines a terrain awareness warning system (TAWS) with the company’s traffic alert and collision avoidance system – the TCAS 2000. ACSS describes T˛CAS as being “performance-based,” because its computer generates a unique “avoid terrain” aural and visual alert when it detects that the specific aircraft model doesn’t have sufficient climb capability to avoid contact with the ground using a standard vertical recovery maneuver. To make this calculation, the system’s computer uses a patented “terrain advisory line” that predicts the ground clearance if the aircraft continues flying within 30 degrees either side of its current path for four minutes.
According to ACSS, T˛CAS can be applied to any business, regional, air transport or military aircraft. The new STCs just granted allows the system to be used in revenue service by Aeromexico for seven B-757s and five B-767s, Air Atlanta Icelandic for four B-757s, European Air Transport for 35 B-757s and Virgin Express for nine B-737s. 06-17-2004. (Top)
RTCA ATM Advisory Committee Gives Its Modernization Priorities to FAA
RTCA’s Air Traffic Management Advisory Committee presented a list of modernization priorities to the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization earlier this month. The ATO asked for industry’s input, which has compiled air traffic experts from a cross section of U.S. aviation interests, including aircraft manufacturers, service providers, airlines, labor unions and trade associations.
In the near term, the Committee wants the ATO to focus on implementing area navigation and performance-based navigation procedures, time-based metering into congested airports, and surface-traffic management tools to increase efficiency on the ground.
More specifically, the Committee gave the ATO this list of what it sees as the most important near-term problems, along with its recommended solutions:
- Many of today’s airport arrival, departure and transition procedures prevent aircraft from operating along the most fuel efficient paths. To alleviate this problem, the ATO should implement area navigation procedures for arrivals and departures at agreed-upon sites to take advantage of equipment already on most air transport and many general aviation aircraft. This includes using area navigation to provide more departure or arrival routes where only a single route is available today.
- Since many airports don’t have sufficient approaches in poor visibility, the ATO should implement more ILS-like area navigation approaches to alleviate this problem, acting first where the benefits would be the greatest.
- When visibility deteriorates at many large airports, some runways become unusable, given their current infrastructure and landing aids. The Committee believes that significant benefits could be realized at a number of these facilities with new performance-based navigation procedures. Examples include new curved approaches into New York’s Kennedy and Newark, simultaneous approaches to closely-spaced parallel runways such as exist at San Francisco, and new simultaneous independent approaches to the fifth runway under construction at Atlanta.
- New instrument flight procedures aren’t being implemented at a rate fast enough to enable a full transition to area navigation. The FAA needs to accelerate the certification and production of public and special instrument flight procedures, and should consider contracting at least some of this work to private contractors or “designees.” Also, the agency should review the terminal area procedures at its “pacing” 35 airports (as identified in its Operational Evolution Plan, and discontinue redundant or low-benefit procedures. (These include procedures based on VOR (visual omni range) or NDB (non-directional beacons) that are largely unused and superfluous.)
- Current "fixed" airways restrict aircraft while en route and in terminal areas, while area-navigation routes can better use available airspace and user-preferred routings can improve efficiency. Therefore, the Committee urged the FAA to implement these improvements as quickly as possible. It also strongly endorsed the FAA's national implementation of URET (user request evaluation tool) conflict probe by 2006 to help enable the use of area navigation, by giving the controller the necessary tool to confidently grant these clearances.
- Today, at many of the largest airports in the U.S., controllers must use en-route speed restrictions, radar vectors away from the airport, or holding, to manage demand during busy periods. The Committee wants the FAA to start time-based metering at six agreed-to sites by the end of 2007, to begin ameliorating this inefficiency.
- Because of insufficient information distributed to the right persons, too many flights today are unnecessarily delayed on the ground, especially during their departure. Therefore, the Committee wants the agency to implement an airport multi-sensor ground-surveillance capability by the end of 2006 to provide improved situational awareness. This includes implementing a STM (surface traffic management) automation system that would integrate the operational situation seen in ramp towers and aircraft cockpits with what is seen in the control tower, as well as terminal and en-route air traffic control facilities, and even the FAA’s air traffic control system command center.
In addition to these recommendations, the Committee urged the FAA, between now and 2008, to be prepared to increase the automation of en-route ATC operations; to develop comprehensive roadmaps for ADS-B (broadcast automatic dependent surveillance) and datalink, including CPDLC (controller-pilot datalink); and to develop a roadmap on how LAAS (local area augmentation system) for GPS will evolve. 06-15-2004. (Top)
Air Canada to Outsource Flight Data Analysis with Teledyne Controls
Teledyne Controls says that it will supply Air Canada with a remote flight data analysis (FDA) service for over 100 of the carrier’s A320 family aircraft. The FDA to be used in the program was jointly developed by Teledyne and the airline.
Teledyne said the Canadian flag carrier wanted to establish a comprehensive program that included routine monitoring of flight operations, as well as the ability to further research collected data and address aircraft technical issues. Additionally Air Canada required an active role in the program, and wanted to develop its own FDA competence by working closely with its selected supplier to bring constant improvements to the program.
According Teledyne, Air Canada's decision to outsource its flight data analysis was reached after careful study and research. While cost considerations suggested delaying the program for better economic times, the airline decided to go forward on the project because of its commitment to "safety first." 06-15-2004. (Top)
Weyerhaeuser Will Use Flightdocs Maintenance Tracking
Weyerhaeuser will use Flightdocs maintenance tracking service for its entire jet fleet of Falcons and Bell helicopters.
Flightdocs will give Weyerhaeuser the ability to use a secure Internet connection to retrieve such things as maintenance due lists, manufacturers' task cards, maintenance schedules, and parts requirements. It can also analyze historical maintenance data online.
Flightdocs says it now also provides the ability to search logbooks, and get real-time maintenance updates, work orders and maintenance planning tools, all via the Internet. 06-14-2004. (Top)
Smiths Detection and TeraView Developing Hand-Held Screening Device
Smiths Detection and TeraView have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop a hand-held wand that uses terahertz light waves to detect and identify concealed weapons – even non-metallic ones – as well as bulk and sheet explosives.
Terahertz light, which lies between microwave and infrared in the electromagnetic spectrum, has a number of unique properties that allow it to pass through clothing, paper and plastics to detect metal, ceramic or plastic material. It also can detect substances, such as explosives, by their spectral characteristics. And because Terahertz light is non-ionising, its proponents believe it won’t be handicapped by safety concerns, which could limit the use of techniques that use this type of radiation for passenger screening.
Furthermore, the wand should reduce the number of false alarms from traditional metal detectors that lead to invasive manual searches, and enable in-situ screening of luggage, Smiths believes.
Smiths Detection is one of four operating divisions of Smiths Group plc. TeraView is a UK company established in April 2001 to develop and exploit terahertz technology. 06-17-2004. (Top)
TSA Will Start Registered Traveler Pilot Experiment at Five Airports
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it will launch its Registered Traveler program on an experimental basis with Northwest Airlines at Minneapolis-St. Paul later this month. Checkpoint operations should begin in early July.
Similar programs are scheduled later this summer for Los Angeles with United, Houston Bush with Continental, and with American Airlines at Boston and Washington’s Reagan National. The pilot is scheduled to last 90 days at each airport.
The participating airlines will solicit volunteers for the program from their frequent flyers that travel at least once a week in selected markets. Each volunteer will provide to the TSA his or her name, address, phone number and date of birth along with biometric imprints of their finger and iris. TSA will then perform a security assessment of each volunteer that will include an analysis of law enforcement and intelligence data sources and a check of outstanding criminal warrants. Once approved, the volunteer will be considered enrolled in the pilot program. Passengers will not be charged an enrollment fee during the pilot phase.
As a part of this program, the TSA has contracted with Unisys and EDS for the biometrics technology, tactical operations and program management. Unisys was selected for Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Houston and EDS for Boston and Washington.
Once the program is operational, volunteers will use a registered-traveler lane at their home airports and provide either their finger or iris scan biometric information, to confirm their valid registrations and before proceeding to primary screening; secondary screening will be largely eliminated. 06-17-2004. (Top)
Air Seychelles Will Use FlightVu Cockpit Door Monitoring
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles will use a FlightVu cockpit door monitoring system on its pair of B-767-300ERs.
FlightVu consists of three closed-circuit TV cameras linked to a LCD monitor mounted on the cockpit pedestal that provides the pilots with real-time video of the area outside the cockpit door. Infrared illuminators are included to allow the area to be viewed in low-light conditions.
AD Aerospace of Manchester, UK and Aircraft Engineering & Installation Services (AEI) of Orlando, Florida, USA provide the security system and installation design respectively. 06-15-2004. (Top)
ICAO to Hold Workshop on CNS/ATM Business Case Development
ICAO will hold a special workshop in Cairo on September 6-9, 2004, that will address issues concerning the development of business cases for the implementation of CNS/ATM systems. Click here for more details. 06-18-2004. (Top)
ARINC and Telenor Close to Introducing Technology to Allow Cell Phones Inflight
ARINC and Oslo-based Telenor say they will soon begin marketing new technology that will allow airline passengers to use many commonly-used mobile phones aboard commercial flights.
The companies, which formed an alliance in 2003, revealed their plans at this week’s Inmarsat Conference in Montreal. “Passengers will be able to make and receive mobile phone calls, and send or receive text messages just as they do on the ground,” said Graham Lake, ARINC’s vice president and managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “It is not a question of whether mobile phones will be used on aircraft. It is merely a question of when.”
The new technology, which uses the GSM (global system for mobile) standard, will initially leverage the Inmarsat satcom systems already installed on over 3,000 aircraft worldwide. The system is also designed to accommodate evolving technologies such as Inmarsat’s Swift/BGAN, and Ku broadband systems such as ARINC’s SKYLink.
Engineers from Telenor, ARINC and several airlines have been working to accomplish this feat. Berit Svendsen, Telenor’s chief technology officer, said, “We recognize the use of GSM phones on board aircraft is inevitable in the next 12-18 months and have positioned our alliance and technology at the forefront of these developments. We view the ability to literally ‘roam’ onto an aircraft, and seamlessly use a mobile phone for voice and SMS messaging, as a near-term reality. We will provide a comprehensive Aero-GSM fleet solution without the need for a significant investment in communications infrastructure.”
ARINC and Telenor say they will offer the airlines a comprehensive, one-stop implementation package to introduce the service. The technology will assume airspace as a virtual GSM country to simplify inflight addressing and connectivity. Current terrestrial GSM roaming charges are being used for end-user pricing models. 06-18-2004. (Top)
ARINC and Satcom Direct Will Jointly Offer Services to Business Aviation
ARINC says it has formed a strategic business alliance with Florida-based Satcom Direct to offer satellite voice, fax, and Swift64 high-speed data communications services to business aviation.
The companies plan to integrate Satcom Direct’s satellite services with ARINC Direct’s service suite of datalink, flight planning, weather, and aircraft tracking, in order to provide more offerings with added value for their customers.
Satcom Direct currently provides satellite access via Inmarsat and Iridium constellations to more than 1,500 business aircraft. Users simply dial a global, 10-digit number to connect to the aircraft regardless of its location. Customers may also combine their Inmarsat, Iridium and terrestrial calling into the same Global One Number.
ARINC Direct offers a comprehensive suite of Web-enabled flight support tools for business aviation, including access to text and graphical weather, computation of flight plans, automated datalink messaging to aircraft, graphical real-time aircraft tracking, and support from a 24x7 flight coordinator staff. 06-17-2004. (Top)
British Airways and Qantas Update Their Sabre Slot Management System
British Airways and Qantas have implemented the latest release of Sabre Airline Solutions’ slot management system, which can help airline flight schedulers request and maintain their slot portfolios.
Sabre says its SlotManager (release 10) can reduce slot request preparation time by 50 to 90 percent and allow operators to complete slot requests in hours, rather than weeks, compared to manual preparation. It can also be used to identify underutilized slots, or minimize the possibility of losing slots.
Both airlines will integrate SlotManager with Sabre’s AirFlite Schedule Manager. 06-14-2004. (Top)
ARINC Previews New Airport Information System
ARINC and its business partner, ADW Consultancy, previewed a new airport interactive information system at the recent 2004 Airports Council International (ACI) Congress in Nice, France.
The system – which has multilingual touch screens for easy, intuitive access – was designed to help passengers quickly and easily get information about basic travel information on hotels, transportation and more, in multiple languages at any time of day. It also can provide up-to-the-minute information to the airport’s staff, many of whom have no access to a PC and work outside of normal office hours.
The two companies believe the system, with its modular format to allow individual customization, offers revenue generating possibilities for airports as well. They plan to market the system initially in the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. 06-18-2004. (Top)
Edmonton Airport to Provide Wireless Internet
Edmonton will provide public wireless Internet access from Opti-Fi Networks in its terminal for passengers, airport businesses and the airport itself.
Travelers with computers capable of 802.11b connectivity, and certain other devices, will be able to subscribe to the public system as soon as it is operational. The airport will have private wireless access at the same time. Opti-Fi Networks will maintain the dual-use system after installation with 24/7 on-call support.
Opti-Fi says because it manages an airport’s outside relationships with multiple telecommunications vendors and provides complete billing services; it can accommodate roaming customers under multiple network agreements, and can assure that virtually all passengers can have access to an Internet connection, regardless of their provider. And because its managed service is host-neutral, the airport retains complete control over its own wireless assets and frequency spectrum.
Opti-Fi Networks, Ltd. is a wireless technology provider formed by the Parsons Corporation, ARINC, and the founders of Airpath Wireless. 06-16-2004. (Top)
Lufthansa Implements New Training Technology to Reduce Costs
Lufthansa has implemented Eedo Knowledgeware Corporation’s authoring and learning content management system to increase the productively of its training personnel.
Lufthansa intends to use Eedo’s browser-based ForceTen to help its internal trainers and subject matter experts to develop electronic course content, and reduce their need to independently commission third party agencies to do this task.
According to Eedo, its ForceTen will help Lufthansa accomplish this goal because of:
- Its intuitive interface and WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) page builder that increases development productivity.
- Its ability to freely define templates for pages, instructional tactics, and entire course structures while maintaining quality, standardization and instructional integrity.
- Its ability to allow teams to collaborate on course material development, by easily capturing, manipulating and transferring information. 06-18-2004. (Top)
Goodrich Introduces New Technology for MD-80 Aircraft Noise Compliance
Goodrich says it, along with JET Engineering, has improved the technology of the MD-80 aircraft engine exhaust nozzles it introduced in 2003, to comply with current international airport noise requirements.
According to Goodrich, its new JET nozzle enables an even wider range of in-service MD-80s, powered by Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 series engines, to comply with ICAO’s Stage 4/Chapter 4 standards. And because the new nozzle technology also reduces fuel burn and lowers engine temperatures, operating and maintenance costs are significantly reduced at the same time, Goodrich claims.
The FAA certified the new nozzle configuration earlier this month, by amending the original STC (supplemental type certificate) it issued for the JET nozzle last year.
Goodrich says the new nozzle will enable 890 of the more than 1,000 MD-80s still in service to operate into international airports without any limitations or additional landing fees. The technology is available for all MD-81, -82, -83, -87, and -88 models with a maximum takeoff weight up to 149,500 pounds and equipped with JT8D-217A, -217C, and -219 engine variants. The remaining 270 aircraft could also achieve this same compliance with the JET nozzle, by a making a minor change in their standard landing flap configuration. 06-18-2004. (Top)
Japan Airlines received its first GE90-115B-powered B-777-300ER from Boeing. The airplane is the 28th 777 delivered to JAL and the first of eight 777-300ERs that the airline will receive through 2008. 06-18-2004.
Virgin America has announced a firm order for 11 A319s and seven A320s. In addition, the soon-to-start, low-fare U.S. carrier will lease 15 A320-family aircraft from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). All of the aircraft will be powered by CFM International engines. First deliveries are scheduled for early 2005. 06-17-2004.
Frontier took delivery of three more A319s, its 27th, 28th and 29th. One will be leased from IFLC and the other two will be leased from GECAS. With these deliveries, Frontier now has nine B-737-300s, 29 A319s, and six A318s. 06-15-2004.
China Southern Northern Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of China Southern Air Holding Co., took delivery of three A319s that are part of an order of 16 new Airbus aircraft placed by China Northern Airlines prior to its merger with China Southern Air Holding. One more A319s will be delivered this year, five in 2005, three in 2006 and four in 2007. 06-15-2004.
The China Aviation Supplies Imp. & Exp. Group Corporation (CASGC) will purchase 20 A330-300s with deliveries to begin in the first quarter of 2006. The engine type will be decided later. 06-14-2004.
Air China leased a used B-737-300 from ILFC for delivery in July 2004. 06-14-2004.
Air Finland leased a used RB211-535-E4-powered B-757-200ER from ILFC. 06-14-2004. (Top)
Austrian Airlines Group flew 1.69 billion RPKs in May, up 36.9% compared to May 2003. ASKs were up 30.9% to 2.42 billion. For the five months ended May 31, traffic was up 21.2% to 7.9 billion RPKs, while capacity rose 12.7% to 11 billion ASKs. 06-18-2004.
Iberia flew 3.64 billion RPKs in May, up 14.6% on the year-ago period. Capacity increased 8.8% to 4.97 billion ASKs. For the five months ended May 31, RPKs increased 12.7% to 17.99 billion, and ASKs increased 9.8% to 24.35 billion. 06-18-2004.
Finnair flew 1.1 billion RPKs in May, up 39.4% over the year-ago period. Capacity rose 22.4% to 1.66 billion ASKs. For the five months ended May 31, RPKs grew 19.1% to 6.31 billion, while ASKs increased 15% to 8.96 billion. 06-18-2004.
LanChile flew 1.08 billion RPKs in May, up 19.9% over the year-ago period. Capacity increased 15.1% to 1.67 billion ASKs. For the five months ended May 31, RPKs increased 22.6% to 6.04 billion, as ASKs grew 13.8% to 8.49 billion. 06-17-2004.
Lufthansa flew 9.21 billion RPKs in May, up 26.7% over the year-ago period, while capacity increased 27.4% to 12.49 billion ASKs. For the five months ended May 31, RPKs increased 16.4% to 40.84 billion, and ASKs climbed 12.9% to 55.91 billion. 06-17-2004.
The Boyd Group says on its Website that “the demand bubble for RJs is deflating right on schedule. The fact is that the US airline industry already has in the sky or on order more RJs than it can absorb…. This is not to say that the regional jet is going away any time soon, but the rah-rah forecasts and news stories claiming that RJs are going to dominate the industry are sheer nonsense.” 06-16-2004.
SN Brussels Airlines reported a net loss of €4.5 million in the first quarter ended March 31, compared to a net loss of €26.3 million in the year-ago period. 06-14-2004.
Preliminary data from ICAO show world airline revenues rose 2.2% in 2003 to $312.9 billion from $306 billion in 2002, marking the first year-over-year increase in annual turnover since 1999-2000. Revenues were 1.7% above 2001 revenues of $307.5 billion, but remained 4.8% below 2000 revenues of $328.5 billion. The world's airlines posted an operating loss of $2.8 billion in 2003, compared to an operating loss of $4.9 billion in 2002. 06-14-2004.
Air France/KLM Group’s
combined traffic in May
increased 21.3% to 14.26
billion RPKs, while capacity
grew 15.4% to 18.68 billion
ASKs. AF traffic grew 20.5%
on a 15.4% growth in
capacity, and KLM traffic
increased 22.8% while its
capacity grew by 15.6%.
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