The global air transportation industry is in the process of slowly transitioning to Controller to Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) to help alleviate the increasingly congested voice ...

It's clear skies at O'Hare International Airport, but there's a thunderstorm elsewhere in the Midwest. As passengers blithely board their plane, air traffic control is on the radio with pilot Chuck ...

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The nationwide rollout of a data communication network highlights that Nav Canada has a lead role in the global trend of shifting essential ground-to-air exchanges from voice to text. Nav Canada this ...

The heavily modified Alaska Airlines 737-9 being operated by Boeing for its 2021 ecoDemonstrator program will provide the opportunity for Inmarsat to evaluate the use of Internet Protocol Suite ...

As authorities continue to search for the Malaysia Airlines jet that went missing on March 8, thoughts turn to air safety. It’s exceptionally rare for planes to experience malfunctions, especially ...

As part of the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen air traffic control modernization, the agency has implemented Data Communications at Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports. Data Comm will help ...

As important as pilot and pilot-controller communication is to the safety of flight operations, it's difficult to find any definitive single source of guidance for the exact lexicon and phraseology to ...

It should be a fairly simple relationship. Pilots fly airplanes. Controllers watch the airplanes, either visually or using radar, and provide instructions that help those pilots reach their ...

Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot ...

"Accident Investigation Committee meets with Controller to investigate...Analysis in progress" "Incident-Controller communication, one of several evidence" Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and ...