Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
The NBAA has made several presentations from the June Annual Flight Attendants Conference available to everyone as podcasts. Especially valuable is "Smoke, Fire and Fumes," presented by Capt. H.G. Bombardi. The recorded session, attended by 276 people, discusses how flight attendants play a crucial part in helping the cockpit crew determine the proper solution to a smoke, fire or fume event. To download this podcast and others, visit http://web.nbaa.org/public/cs/fltatt/2008. Price: No charge NBAA www.nbaa.org
Honeywell launched the Bendix/King AV80R Series portable avionics system that includes a handheld multifunction display and two synthetic-vision equipped cockpit information systems. The synthetic vision systems, the AV80R Horizon 3D and AV80R Vision 3D, provide graphical renderings of the environment with a view of the aircraft position and situation outside the cockpit. The systems provide pilots with real-time satellite weather information, topographic terrain and aeronautic navigation information.
Avidyne is developing new synthetic vision system (SVS) and enhanced vision system (EVS) upgrades for its Entegra product line. The SVS depicts 3-D terrain out to the horizon, based on aircraft altitude above the ground. The system also depicts obstacles, traffic and "Highway-in-the-Sky" (HITS) on the primary flight display. The EVS uses a Max-Viz EVS-100 infrared camera, which provides a daytime view at night, allowing pilots to see up to 10 times farther in marginal VFR conditions.
