Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) intends to require airlines and other operators to upgrade radio altimeters again to head off fresh interference threats ...

Barometric altimeters are most common, and measure altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure. Modern commercial ...

UAV Navigation includes Ainstein in their subsystems partners’ portfolio. The radar altimeter from the American manufacturer is now plug&play with the Spanish autopilots. Madrid, June, 2021 – ...

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to require all transport aircraft have updated altimeters by February 2024, citing concern about a potential “catastrophic incident” caused by interference ...

There’s a strange synchronicity in the projects we see here at Hackaday, where different people come up with strikingly similar stuff at nearly the same time. We’re not sure why this is, but it’s ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday issued its latest regulatory policy statement concerning potential interference issues facing aircraft radar altimeter systems two weeks ahead of ...

The Federal Aviation Administration says it finally has a plan for the industry to replace or retrofit airplane altimeters that can’t filter out transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies.

The project was designed to create an accurate radio altimeter with dual-channel homodyne receiver intended as a landing aid for small general-aviation aircraft equipped with synthesized-voice human ...