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Flight data resilience
A description of different methods to make flight control computers more resilient against misleading sensor data.
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Engineering Pilot Blog
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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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