By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the ninth in a series of articles looking at the impact of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) on GA pilots. What the heck is this all about? NextGen really not NextGen? Over the course of the last 10 months we have reviewed quite a few navigation techniques that […]
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By demand: More on WAAS
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the eighth in a series of articles looking at the impact of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) on GA pilots. First I would like to thank all the readers who have responded to the NextGen series. Feedback is always beneficial in providing a clearer understanding of each article’s […]
Trilateration: A must for NextGen and ADS-B
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the seventh in a series of articles looking at the impact of NextGen on GA pilots. Last post we discussed where GPS came from and how its implementation was successfully completed by using ground base pseudolites. We also reviewed how triangulation was used for navigation. Triangulation basically emulates what we […]
Navigational stars in the sky
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the sixth in a series of articles looking at the impact of NextGen on GA pilots. Over the last six months, we have demonstrated how aviation history has contributed toward the development of our National Airspace System, including new technologies and procedures yielding a safer and less expensive way to […]
The next Next Generation
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the fifth in a series of articles looking at the impact of NextGen on GA pilots. The term Next Generation could have been used from the very beginning as we built the National Airspace System (NAS) to the size it is today. As we have reported over the course of […]
Fly the distance with NextGen: And the beat (frequency) goes on
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the impact of NextGen on GA pilots. By understanding a little more of the technological side of the National Airspace System, GA pilots will not only improve their piloting skills, but will learn that each new advancement is a building block […]
Fly the distance with NextGen: The power of the electron
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. This is the third in a series of articles looking at the impact of NextGen on GA pilots. As we race through each generation of the National Airspace System (NAS), technology clearly is the biggest driver contributing to its evolution. Last month we discovered that the expansion of the NAS was started […]
Fly the distance with NextGen: In the beginning there was fire
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. (This is the second in a series of articles looking at the impact of NextGen on GA pilots.) The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is rapidly approaching and, as astute pilots, we need to start preparing for what influence this new system may have on our day-to-day flying. Using the word […]
Fly the distance with NextGen
By JEFFREY BOCCACCIO. Today we introduce our newest blog, Fly the distance with NextGen, which will explore what the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) means to GA pilots and what we need to do to prepare for it. The author, a private pilot and chief engineer at MatchBox Aeronautical Systems, wants this blog to […]