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Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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'Freeze JAA rule-making', says IFALPA
THE EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) should be barred from developing or adopting new aviation regulations (JARs) until its status as a European rule-making body has been established, says the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA). The objection follows a European Commission (EC) Transport Directorate working paper ...
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Forward-looking windshear radar
SINCE CERTIFICATION of the first forward-looking windshear radar in late 1994, airline installations have gathered pace. Three systems are now certificated: the AlliedSignal RDR-4B, the Collins WXR-700X and the Westinghouse MR-3000. Using Doppler-processing technology, the sensitivity of weather radars has been increased to the point where it is ...
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The pros and cons of a 'single European ticket'
Sir - It is interesting to be informed via "European FAA?" (editorial, Flight International, 24-30 January) that there are plans to force the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to become legally responsible to the European Commission, rather than to the individual airworthiness authorities of member states. Can we ...
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Conquering the divide
Europe is beginning to question the Joint Aviation Authorities' competence to regulate. David Learmount/LONDON AVIATION REGULATORS in Europe, having built what they thought was a structure with firm foundations when they set up the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAAs), are now discovering that the house may have ...
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Systems & components
Winner: Messier-Bugatti Location: Velizy, France Achievement: Head-up display for first 737 Category IIIB certification SEXTANT AVIONIQUE'S head-up flight-display system (HFDS) allowed L'A‚ropostale to become the world's first carrier to gain certification for Category IIIB operation of Boeing 737-300s, in September 1995. The judges ...
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Technology challenge
Making it easy is not part of the latest Branson challenge. Andrew Doyle/LONDON WHEN VIRGIN AIRWAYS chairman Richard Branson and balloon manufacturer Per Lind- strand launch their attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, it will be more than a test of human endurance. The performance of ...
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Sabena brought to a halt by pilot strike. . .
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS BELGIAN NATIONAL carrier Sabena is paralysed by the fourth strike since November. This time the pilot's union, ABPNL, is opposing the hiring of four pilots by regional subsidiary DAT to fly the new Avro RJ85. The latest series of conflicts began when the ...
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Civil avionics: rising to the challenge
The biggest change in the commercial-avionics industry since the move to digital technology isnow under way. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FANS, CNS/ATM, Free Flight: the names change, but the story remains the same. Aviation is moving away from the reliance on ground-based systems which has marked its first century ...
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Russians sign avionics deal
AVIACOR, THE SAMARA-based manufacturer of the Tupolev Tu-154M, has formed a strategic alliance with Honeywell, covering the use of the US avionics-maker's equipment on the Russian manufacturer's aircraft. The agreement, which was signed at Asian Aerospace '96, specifies potential programmes for the installation of Honeywell's integrated avionics, flight-management ...
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China plans ATM tests
CHINA WILL conduct trials of a satellite-based air-traffic-management (ATM) system in Xi'an between 17 and 19 March as part of long-term plans to develop a complete communications, navigation, surveillance (CNS)/ATM airspace infrastructure. The Xi'an demonstration will be performed by an international team led by Rockwell's Texas-based Communication Systems division (CSD) ...
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Lufthansa/United begin push for anti-trust protection
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA SAYS that it will apply "immediately" for anti-trust immunity for its alliance with United Airlines, following the signature of a preliminary open-skies agreement between the USA and Germany. German transport minister Matthias Wissman and his US counterpart Federico Pe¤a reached an accord after ...
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Russia's air-traffic volume continues to fall
TRAFFIC VOLUMES in Russia have fallen for the fifth successive year, according to the Russian Transport Department's 1995 annual report, due to be published on 16 February. The latest decline leaves passenger numbers at barely one-third of 1990's peak, when 90.7 million boardings were recorded in Russia, then part of ...
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CAA criticises preparation for new automated aircraft pilots
David Learmount/LONDON AIRLINE PILOTS ARE given inadequate type-conversion training for modern, highly automated aircraft, according to a senior UK Civil Aviation Authority official. CAA test pilot Capt Terry Newman, a European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) representative on a US Federal Aviation Administration team studying safety in ...
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...as Air France risks unrest
AIR FRANCE PRESIDENT Christian Blanc has renounced long-standing agreements with pilots of subsidiary domestic carrier Air France Europe (the new name for Air Inter) risking further strike action at the airline. Blanc wants to bring Air Inter Europe into line with the existing union agreements with Air France ...
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Aerospace mergers begin to reshape US industry ranking
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WITH YEAR-END results now in for most of the major US aerospace groups, the effect of mergers and acquisitions are beginning to show through in the industry rankings. Lockheed Martin, as predicted, has pushed ahead of strike-hit Boeing in the world league table, and ...
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Aerospace faces up to threat of cadmium ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE THREAT OF a European ban on cadmium being extended to aerospace is forcing manufacturers to search for alternative anti-corrosion coatings. Aerospace is exempt from an existing ban on cadmium, but this is likely to be revoked if studies into possible alternatives prove fruitful. ...
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OAA aims to set up volcanic action
THE ORIENT AIRLINES Association (OAA) wants to establish a co-ordinated reporting system to reduce the time taken to warn airlines of volcanic activity in the Asia-Pacific region. "What you have now is a variety of different authorities monitoring volcanic activity, and the last thing they do is pick ...
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Embraer confident about its future
EMBRAER EXPECTS to have launched a finance and leasing operation to support sales of the EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop and EMB-145 regional jet by the time of the first delivery of the latter aircraft late this year. The Brazilian manufacturer is already starting to establish the structure of the ...
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Boeing examines longest-range 777 yet
BOEING IS studying an ultra-long-range 777-200 as a possible alternative to the development of the smaller-capacity short-bodied -100X. The study has been prompted by airline demand for an ultra-long-haul aircraft combining the range of the -100X with the higher capacity of the -200. Boeing hopes that the move ...