How Helionix enhances the latest Airbus Helicopters H135
Airbus Helicopters recently announced EASA certification of the Helionix avionics fit for its H135 light twin-engined aircraft. It marks the... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: ADS-B
Face-to-face with Iridium on NEXT for safety service, bizav cabins
With ICAO’s first Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) recommendation slated to take effect in November 2018, Iridium is g... Continue Reading
Press Release: China Eastern picks Rockwell Collins IFE for 737s
Rockwell Collins’ PAVES™ On-demand in-flight entertainment (IFE) system will be installed on 30 Next-Generation Boeing 737 and 60 737 MAX ai... Continue Reading
Press Release: Seychelles signs data service agreement with Aireon
Aireon LLC, the developer of the world’s first space-based global air traffic surveillance system, announced today that it signed a data ser... Continue Reading
Partial GlobalBeacon tracking available to Qatar immediately
Even though the GlobalBeacon flight-tracking service announced by an Aireon-FlightAware partnership last week won’t be fully operational unt... Continue Reading
Aireon still targets early 2018 operations despite SpaceX delay
Aireon still expects to begin offering space-based ADS-B air traffic management surveillance data feeds to all its air navigation service pr... Continue Reading
Flightradar24 gears up for a new wave of flight tracking
FlightRadar24, the live flight tracker service that myriad news outlets rely upon when an aircraft goes off radar, has begun experimenting w... Continue Reading
SITAONAIR FlightTracker to introduce weather-based alerting
The FlightTracker service SITAONAIR has offered for about 18 months as part of its AIRCOM Server aeronautical telecommunications product lin... Continue Reading
Launch date of Aireon satellites uncertain after Falcon 9X explosion
Yesterday’s explosion which destroyed a SpaceX Falcon 9X launcher and its payload during a static test-firing on Cape Canaveral’s Laun... Continue Reading
Press Release: masFlight gets boost with real-time aircraft data
Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: ENT) (“GEE”), a worldwide provider of end-to-end connectivity and media to the airline, maritime an... Continue Reading
First satellites with space-based ADS-B payloads near ship date
The first 10 Iridium NEXT communications satellites, each bearing an Aireon space-based ADS-B antenna-and-receiver payload on its underside,... Continue Reading
Why Boeing 787s are appearing to lose their way
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is facing another challenge from regulators. Canadian and Australian authorities have instituted restrictions on t... Continue Reading
Reduced separation over North Atlantic is precursor to Aireon
At least 63% of flights transiting over the Gander Oceanic Flight Information Region (FIR) – which stretches from the east coast of Canada t... Continue Reading
Industry running out of excuses for lack of global aircraft tracking
As Indonesia halted its aerial search for Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 for the night, the world asked again – how is it possible th... Continue Reading
FAA’s adoption of space-based ADS-B is a near certainty: analyst
Raymond James analyst Chris Quilty, a long-time vocal supporter of Aireon, believes that despite the FAA’s own funding concerns for th... Continue Reading
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