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Understanding TAWS integration: Why knowing your avionics matters.
This article covers the typical TAWS architectures on transport aircraft, and demonstrates, why knowledge is key.
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May 20
PBN errors and obstacle clearance
This article aims to make the content of PANS-OPS and ICAO PBN manual more accessible, covering error budgets and obstacle clearance of PBN.
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Feb 12
On the PAPI, but clear of obstacles?
This article covers the obstacle assessment of PAPI installations and provides information about the relevant regulatory guidance.
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May 2, 2023
Beyond airspace alerts and NOTAMs: Long-term GNSS interference mitigations
The ever-increasing impact of GNSS interference on aviation needs to be addressed also from a technical perspective. This is today's topic.
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Feb 14, 2023
Snow effects on ILS signal propagation
As we are in the midst of winter, many places have seen a decent amount of snow fall. In this article we look at how the trustworthy ILS...
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Nov 29, 2022
Flight data resilience
A description of different methods to make flight control computers more resilient against misleading sensor data.
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Sep 19, 2022
Challenging the Pitot tube: Optical air data
A radically different method to optain air data, based on optical measurements.
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Apr 11, 2022
GLS: A landing system struggling to take off
A discussion about GLS and its associated challenges.
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Jan 19, 2022
5G vs. Radar altimeter: a déjà vu
Radar altimeters are used on aircraft to measure the height above the surface. They have been in use for decades onboard large airliners...
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Mar 20, 2020
Successfully navigating RF legs
A short article merging airworthiness requirements with operational procedures to enable flight crews to cope with RF legs.
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Oct 8, 2019
Getting to the right place
This post is all about getting navigation data from the "books" to the aircraft in order to successfully navigate the globe...
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Aug 14, 2019
Lost in space - How does aviation cope with a GPS outage?
The recent outage of GALILEO has clearly demonstrated that any Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can - from one second to the...
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Jan 9, 2019
The right mix
Long gone are the days, where a navigator was tasked to determine the aircraft position using multiple sources and then bring the...
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Oct 2, 2018
A magnetic disorder
When a 200-million-dollar passenger jet approaches a major airport somewhere on this planet and receives some directions from air traffic...
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Sep 23, 2018
A new approach
It used to be simple: There were „non-precision“ and „precision“ approaches. But things have changed quite a bit. The advent of...
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