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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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Aug 22
The radome: More than an “aerodynamic housing”
This article uncovers key aspects of the radome including providing examples of real-world radome damages.
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Dec 5, 2023
AOA information on the speed tape: Benefits and caveats
This article aims to highlight benefits and caveats of mixing AOA-derived information in to a speed tape.
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Jun 23, 2023
ACAS X update: A small, big change
A description of the new ACAS X system and comparison with TCAS II.
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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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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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Apr 13, 2021
Single Event Effects - The Achilles heel of modern aerospace electronics
The Wright Flyer contained no electronics whatsoever. Sputnik I was quite simple, consisting of two transmitters based on tube...
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