Musings and observations from the uAvionix team.
Why Diversity Matters A typical transponder and ADS-B system for General Aviation (GA) uses a single, bottom-mounted antenna, which provides the best line of sight to ADS-B receivers and secondary surveillance radar (SSR) systems on the ground. However, there is a growing use of space-based ADS-B receivers around the world, which poses a problem [...]
The words “groundbreaking transponder technology” haven’t been uttered without hyperbole since the transition from tubes to digital. We’re prepared to make that claim today with the FAA TSO authorization for the uAvionix tailBeaconX and are bursting at the seams to share why exactly we feel that way. tailBeaconX is the first certified embodiment of uAvionix’s [...]
Written by Dr. Jim Davis, Director of Policy & Regulatory Affairs at uAvionix, featured at Military Embedded Systems. The idea of combat ID or IFF is to provide a warfighter with a means of instantly determining if an encountered entity is friendly or hostile. With aircraft, the specific technology employed is an IFF transponder.
The uAvionix ping200X transponder and truFYX GPS recently enabled UAS specialists, Flylogix, to conduct ambitious Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations in the North Sea. Who is Flylogix? Flylogix is a team of unmanned aircraft system operators with a mission to make our world a better place with UAS at the fulcrum. The UK based team is delivering smarter [...]
Currently, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is all the rage. As an industry – we tend to bounce around every few months to a new “thing” which occupies all the press, chatter, and investment. In the past, it’s been Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), package delivery, Detect and Avoid (DAA), Unmanned [...]
What’s going on? When we achieved STC certification of tailBeacon, we made a cautious decision to announce that installation on rotorcraft was not permitted. Understandably, we received a lot of feedback and disappointment from the helicopter community. This disappointment was justified in that we had previously communicated that tailBeacon would be [...]
By now, you’ve hopefully heard the news that uAvionix completed the acquisition of AeroVonics’ fantastic cockpit display technology this week. We’ve hardly been able to contain our excitement in sharing this news with you. It is a milestone event in the growth of our company, and I wanted to take [...]
As you read this, the ASTM proposed standard for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) remote identification (RID) is up for F38 Committee vote for the second time this year. It has until Oct 16 to be voted on by committee members. I’m going to vote against it, again. I don’t want to be one [...]
ADS-B OUT (on manned aircraft) + ADS-B IN (on UAS) = Safer Skies
uAvionix announces development and testing of skyLink CNPC radio for UAS and UAM
A UTM-B Demonstration in Conjunction with Operation Zenith
uAvionix adds UAT weather delivery from Wycombe Air Park and Dunsfold Aerodrome.
uAvionix Releases CONOPS White Paper for Spectrum Mitigation
uAvionix has deployed two more UAT ground stations in the UK delivering inflight weather for pilots.
An update on the hotly anticipated skyBeacon ADS-B solution.
The pilot in me loves the simplest, purest airplane I can fly. The engineer in me cringes every time ATC asks me to cycle my transponder. How are we approaching 2020 with aircraft electronics that are nearly indistinguishable from their early 1990s counterparts?
The UK has officially announced that ADS-B is the “preferred national system for electronic conspicuity."
The UK has officially announced that ADS-B is the “preferred national system for electronic conspicuity."
A longtime drone denier and manned aircraft pilot changes his tune regarding drones and their impact on General Aviation.
There has been a lot of discussion in the past couple of years about just what the right technology is for tracking the swarms of drones coming our way in the next decade. Because uAvionix is a communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) company focused almost solely in the drone industry – we are wrapped right up in the middle of the debate.