ARINC and Magellan Systems have signed a memorandum of agreement with a launch customer, an unnamed regional airline, for the GlobaLink/CNS integrated satellite-navigation and data-link-communication systems.
The agreement includes $2.4 million-worth of Magellan CNS-10 avionics units, which sell for under $10,000 each.
San Dimas, California-based Magellan plans to certificate the CNS-10 in the fourth quarter of 1995. The console-mounted unit includes a ten-channel global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver and a two-way VHF data-link for the ARINC Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS).
The unit will have a flight-management capability to allow retrofit in aircraft lacking such systems. There will be space for a dedicated VHF data-link for use with local-area differential-GPS landing systems.
Magellan says that Special Category I GPS-approach certification of the CNS-10 is due in 1996. The basic receiver is compatible with the US Federal Aviation Administration's planned wide-area augmentation system, designed to improve GPS accuracy.
Source: Flight International
