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This section offers news briefs on issues related to avionics. Great Britain and Ireland will begin operating a new functional airspace block (FAB) by mid-July 2008 to improve the capacity of British and Irish airspace. Flight Deck Resources Inc. has a novel electronic flight bag (EFB) system in development that will be able to serve as either a Class 1 or Class 2 system. The second phase of 4D trajectory arrival demonstrations will begin at the Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden.

The article reports on the plan of Sesar consortium in Europe to make the business objectives of aircraft operators the primary driver in what routes they request and are granted. Through this, aircraft operators are given more control over routes. According to Christian Dumas of the Air Traffic Alliance, business trajectory is the direction in which the group is headed.

The article focuses on the adoption of the concept of 4 dimensional (4D) trajectory operations through the NextGen Air Traffic Control project by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research program. Avtech is assisting Airbus on Sesar, aimed at preparing Europe to handle three times as much air traffic while cutting environmental impact by 10 percent per flight. Avtech has also been working on 4D trials at Stockholm's Arlanda airport.