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When an aircraft is someplace it isn’t supposed to be, it often results in a potentially dangerous situation, putting the lives of the flight crew and passengers at risk. These run the gamut from incursions when an aircraft doesn’t have permission to be on the runway because another one is already there, excursions—or runway overruns—and […]

“Can you accept the visual?” It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain airports when the weather is VFR. In daylight, when the visibility is good, the winds calm, and the pilot familiar with the airport—and the approach is a straight in—the visual […]

Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) said it has agreed to acquire the heads-up display, or HUD,  assets of the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab for use in a range of its avionics products. Under the agreement, Saab will work with Honeywell to develop and strengthen its HUD product line. HUDs help increase pilots’ situational awareness, especially […]