AEA

The FAA Administrator took the occasion this morning at the Aircraft Electronics Association annual meeting in Orlando to describe some of the advantages of NextGen, the highly touted and much anticipated future of America’s aviation system. “5.6 percent of the nation’s GDP is represented by the aviation industry,” Babbitt told the group, “and aviation impacts […]

Moving map displays for the cabin have come a long way since they were introduced and Flight Data Systems has come up with a plug-and-play upgrade for some of the pioneering systems still installed on business aircraft. The new gear fits pin-for-pin into the racks holding Rockwell Airshow 100, 200 and 400 series units but […]

From the latest wonderboxes to the tools that highly-trained specialists use to troubleshoot and fix them, chances are that if it has a circuit board it’s at the Aircraft Electronics Association annual meeting in Orlando. The show opened Thursday and AVweb‘s Editorial Director Paul Bertorelli is on the convention floor. Hundreds of exhibitors and thousands […]

PS Engineering announced Thursday at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Orlando a new, FAA-certified, Bluetooth-enabled audio panel, the PMA8000BT, that it expects to ship by the end of Q2. The technology allows pilots and passengers to wirelessly connect smart phones to the audio panel, which can then distribute the phone’s music, cellular telephone access, […]

Avidyne’s new DX50 data link transceiver playing on a FlightMax EX5000 FSD. [Click any image for a larger version.] Palm Springs, California — Take almost any heading inaviation these days and evidence abounds of declines wrought by the whiplashoverreactions to 9-11 and the economic downturn already manifesting itself theday the Twin Towers fell. Yet once […]

Avidyne’s new DX50 data link transceiver playing on a FlightMax EX5000 FSD. [Click any image for a larger version.]   Palm Springs, California — Take almost any heading inaviation these days and evidence abounds of declines wrought by the whiplashoverreactions to 9-11 and the economic downturn already manifesting itself theday the Twin Towers fell. Yet […]

Surviving In A Tough Economy Most of the avionics technicians attending the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) Trade Show and Convention in Dallas, Texas, April 26-28, 2001, could make more money outside the aviation industry. Why, then, have they chosen avionics maintenance as a career? Most say that there has to be a love and passion […]