Two years out from its mandate for aircraft to equip for ADS-B Out position reporting, the FAA is grappling with a significant level of misinstalled avionics.

Jan. 1, 2020, seems like a long way off, but if you remember previous FAA mandates, the industry experienced huge backlogs because there simply was not enough hangar space.

The FAA will craft a proposed regulation from the recommendations of a broad-based advisory group that met this summer to consider ways to remotely identify and track drones. However, the group ultimately could not agree on a weight or capability threshold that would trigger the tracking requirement.

Understanding how Industry 4.0—including simulation, sensors and virtual reality—will transform aviation manufacturing and product life cycles.

Action on the air-to-ground connectivity front continues unabated.

The entire information industrial complex is seeing enormous genuine potential in artificial intelligence, big data and machine-learning.

Aircraft systems monitoring and reporting is on the cutting edge of the digital age, recording and reporting everything from oil pressure at takeoff compared with the previous 49 takeoffs, to detecting faults in a sensor itself.

Astronautics has completed the preliminary design review for its new connectivity platform for the Astronautics Air-Ground Communications System for Airbus Helicopters.