VORs (Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range) are ground-based radio navigation aids that have guided aircraft since the 1930s by transmitting signals allowing aircraft to determine their bearing ...

No audio available for this content. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or as they are becoming known Unmanned Aircraft/Aerial Systems (UAS), are in the news now almost every day. As UAV/UAS ...

[Avionics Magazine 12-12-2016] A two-year study featuring 360 trial flights has shown the ability of augmented navigation and vision technologies to improve airport access and reduce aircraft ...

The Army’s Project Management (PM) Office for Aviation Mission Systems and Architecture (AMSA) received a statement of airworthiness qualification (SAQ) for the EAGLE-M, the Army’s critical next ...

Some of the busiest airports in the United States daily demonstrate the operational challenges of navigating an aircraft efficiently. An example is Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, ...

As the efficient use of airspace, runways and fuel requires aircraft to follow increasingly precise trajectories, satellite navigation equipment is becoming a must-have in civil aviation. That was the ...