The News Review:
- PCTEL Delivers Precision Aviation GPS Antennas For Deployment in India
- 2009 Modern Day Marine Exposition Set for September 29 – ctober 1
- Separate Altitudes Suggested for Flights ver Hudson
- FAA called after father flies teen to school
- San Diego fliers scared in vintage plane spinout
- Ramco Systems Aviation Group Launches Series 5
- Funding The Aviation Industry’s ConversionTo NextGen
PCTEL Delivers Precision Aviation GPS Antennas For Deployment in India
Reuters
PCTEL’s WAAS antennas a product line within PCTEL`s Military and GovernmentAntenna product family are terrestrial-based antennas that enable highlyprecise navigation and tracking of aircraft. It features state-of-the-arthigh-rejection filters and covers L1 L2 and L5 GPS frequencies. “PCTEL is proud to offer this advanced level of precision antenna technology forthe aviation industry and expand our activities outside the U. ” said JeffMiller Vice President and General Manager of PCTEL`s Antenna Products Group. “We stay committed to the development of high performance GPS antenna solutionsfor commercial and defense markets” added Miller. PCTEL will be demonstrating its WAAS GPS antennas as well as its portfolio ofantenna products at the IN GNSS show Booth # 523 September 22-25 in SavannahGeorgia.
2009 Modern Day Marine Exposition Set for September 29 – ctober 1
Reuters
Representatives from more than 400 companies will display products whichsupport the ground air and sea operations of expeditionary forces. The event is sponsored by the Marine Corps League a 70000-member MarineCorps veterans’ organization and co-sponsored by Marine Corps Systems Commandand Marine Corps Base Quantico. It is endorsed by the Marine Corps AviationAssociation. Much of the equipment now being employed by Marines in Iraq and Afghanistanwas first seen by military leaders operations planners acquisition managersand the end users – air and ground combat Marines – at previous editions ofthe exposition. New to the exposition this year will be an Expeditionary Force AviationPavilion spotlighting Marine Corps air assets – with emphasis on modernizationof the service’s air combat element for its worldwide missions. Marines serving as pilots inother flying roles and in aviation maintenance and logistics support havebecome renowned as innovators.
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Separate Altitudes Suggested for Flights ver Hudson
New York Times
The board is probably months away from a final report about the accident this month in which a single-engine plane collided with a tour helicopter during a flight in a low-altitude area that is not under the direction of air traffic controllers. The main responsibility for avoiding collisions in the area rests with the pilots themselves who are supposed to look out the window for other traffic. The safety board’s call for changes was made on Thursday in a 10-page letter to the Federal Aviation Administration administrator J. The board a purely advisory agency usually makes recommendations after concluding its investigations but does so sooner if it finds that there is a clear case for action to improve safety. The board’s letter came shortly before a report on the same subject was expected from a special panel convened by the aviation administration which actually regulates the pilots and the airspace. Agency officials sometimes complain that the safety board likes to time its recommendations to beat others to the punch.
FAA called after father flies teen to school
The Associated Press
— The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a helicopter ride that a central Florida father arranged for his teenager’s first day of school. According to a Lake County Sheriff’s ffice report Bart Sutherin flew his 14-year-old son Joseph to his first day of classes at East Ridge High School in a rented blue-and-white Hughes 300 helicopter this week. Sutherin landed the helicopter safely behind some portable classrooms on the east side of the campus but he didn’t clear the flight with the Lake County school district officials and sheriff’s office first. According to the rlando Sentinel Sutherin told officials that he wanted to “make a positive impression on the other students” on his son’s first day of ninth grade. The newspaper reports a deputy called the FAA after Sutherin’s flight.
San Diego fliers scared in vintage plane spinout
San Jose Mercury News
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus says the pilot and his two passengers were not injured in the crash. Fergus says the 1928 Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 4000 landed at Montgomery Field and did a 360-degree spin on the runway. Fergus says the plane was badly damaged. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department sent crews to check out the scene but there were no flames. The aircraft owned by Daniels Aviation of El Cajon had a valid airworthiness certificate issued two years ago.
Ramco Systems Aviation Group Launches Series 5
PR Web (press release)
Continuing with the strong presence in Aviation Maintenance and Enterprise Management Ramco has simplified critical user interfaces by incorporating the latest standards in User Centric Design (UCD). With UCD principles applied to the maintenance planning and execution modules planners supervisors and mechanics now spend more time focusing on the job they were hired to do and less time managing data input. 1 incorporates many end user enhancements which further simplifies the typical 'day in the life' scenarios that confront end users. To date this is one of the most robust enhancements to the system and sets the standard for things to come within the future Series 5 releases.
Funding The Aviation Industry’s ConversionTo NextGen
National Journal
However the costs to aircraft operators of adopting the necessary technology are significant and NextGen cannot provide the full benefits it promises of a safer more efficient and environmentally friendly system if only some operators are properly equipped. The FAA’s current NextGen implementation plan calls for giving air space priority to the “best-equipped best-served” operators as an incentive to spur early adoption of NextGen avionics. Is this the best approach? r should the airlines and other aviation system users get funding assistance from the government or greater freedom to raise their own revenues to fund the cost they will need to bear? — Lisa Caruso NationalJournal.