Episodes
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Zoe Cameron, senior first officer for Virgin Atlantic, joins to discuss her experience flying with new avionics, iPad and connectivity technologies on the Airbus A350-1000, as well as her new children's book, Ada and Emily Take to the Skies!
Zoe took her first flight lesson at 12 years old and was inspired to fly at an early age while watching her father who was a military and commercial airline pilot. Over her 14 year career as a pilot, she has seen cockpit technologies evolve and discusses how far those advancements have come while flying the A350-1000.
Her book focuses on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). It’s about two young girls who build an airplane and also features an illustration of a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350.
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Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Volare Aviation's Dustin Dryden Talks Private Flying Trends in Europe
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Dustin Dryden, founder and chairman of Volare Aviation, joins to discuss the changes his company's private jet charter business experienced in 2020 under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Volare, based at London Oxford Airport, provides chartered flights, refurbishment, engineering, and management among other aircraft services. According to Dryden, in 2020, Volare saw demand for business travel drop by 80 percent, while demand for family and vacation travel increased by about the same amount.
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Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsGlobal + www.aviationtoday.com.
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Sunday Dec 20, 2020
Sunday Dec 20, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, we feature a presentation given by Daniel Welch, senior consultant with Valour Consultancy, during our recent two-day Connected Aviation Intelligence live virtual event.
Valour, who has been a guest on the podcast earlier this year, gives an updated outlook on trends to watch across the connected aircraft ecosystem as 2020 comes to an end and industry stakeholders start to shape their plans for 2021. Welch discusses merger and acquisition activity, business models for airlines and service providers as well as equipage trends and commercial production rates.
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Friday Dec 11, 2020
VistaJet COO Talks Latest Connectivity and COVID-19 Updates
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, we feature my question and answer session with Nick Van der Meer, Chief Operating Officer of VistaJet from the recent Connected Aviation Intelligence two-day live program that can be viewed on-demand here.
Van der Meer discusses the deployment status and schedule for VistaJet's new in-flight connectivity technology, LuxStream, across their global fleet of private jets. Vista Global – the parent company of VistaJet and XO - became the launch customer for LuxStream in September 2019, bringing in-flight Internet speeds of up to 25 Mbps in the United States and 15Mbps globally via SES's managed Ku-band satellite network exclusively to business aviation operators.
The current VistaJet fleet includes 60 aircraft based in Malta with 29 total Global 6000s and the remaining spread across Challenger 850s, 605s, and 350s. In the U.S. they have a fleet of Global 5000s and eight Challenger 350s along with the XO fleet of Citation Xs and Challenger 300s.
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Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, we feature an airline cast study that was one of the sessions on our Connected Aviation Intelligence two-day live program this week. If you missed Connected Aviation Intelligence, register to watch it on demand for free here.
Daniel Barcenas, vice president, safety, security, and quality assurance for low-cost Mexican airline Viva Aerobus, discusses the software and connectivity upgrades they have invested in to improve the way they download and analyze aircraft data on a per-flight basis. Barcenas also gives some perspective on the importance of using connectivity to monitor the health of their fleet as they have returned to 100 percent of their pre-COVID-19 levels of flight operations.
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Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsMag + www.aviationtoday.com.
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Watch the full agenda FREE on-demand from our recent two-day virtual event, Connected Aviation Intelligence happening Dec. 2-3, 2020: https://www.gcasummit.com/aviation-intelligence/
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Michel Bielecki, a doctor at the University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Epidemiology Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, and Patrica Schlagenhauf, also a professor at the University of Zurich discuss their recent narrative review of the air travel industry's efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on airplanes and at airports.
Their review, entitled, "Air travel and COVID-19 prevention in the pandemic and peri-pandemic period: A narrative review," was recently published in the Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, and aims to assess the status quo of air travel measures in the context of COVID-19 as of October 2020 and to examine their scientific basis if appropriate.
Check out their full article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920304117
Have suggestions or topics we should focus on in the next episode? Email the host, Woodrow Bellamy at wbellamy@accessintel.com, or drop him a line on Twitter @WbellamyIIIAC.
Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsMag + www.aviationtoday.com.
Join our Avionics International LinkedIn group to suggest topics we should cover in our podcast, publications and events. www.linkedin.com/AvionicsMag
Check out the full agenda for our free upcoming two-day virtual event, Connected Aviation Intelligence happening Dec. 2-3, 2020: https://www.gcasummit.com/aviation-intelligence/
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, David Fox, vice president of in-flight and connectivity services for Deutsche Telekom joins to discuss how his company has been expanding its presence in supporting cabin Internet and mobile network access in-flight across Europe and other regions of the global commercial airline market.
With David, we discussed how Deutsche Telekom is expanding its presence in providing in-flight connectivity and services for airlines, and David provides some perspective on how they’re trying to make the process for airline passenger journeys transitioning from one airport, to the aircraft and then on to the destination airport and the way that passengers stay connected in each of those phases.
We also ask David how Deutsche and others are trying to make that process more seamless, as well as some other in-flight connectivity related topics they’re working on.
Have suggestions or topics we should focus on in the next episode? Email the host, Woodrow Bellamy at wbellamy@accessintel.com, or drop him a line on Twitter @WbellamyIIIAC.
Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsMag + www.aviationtoday.com.
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Friday Oct 30, 2020
Seamless Air Alliance CEO Talks OpenIFC Release 2
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Jack Mandala, CEO of Seamless Air Alliance, joins to discuss the organization’s latest in-flight connectivity standard, “OpenIFC” Release 2.
Seamless Air Alliance was established in 2018 by Airbus, Airtel, Delta, Sprint and OneWeb as a coalition with the goal of driving down the price and increasing the availability of in-flight connectivity service, technology and upgrades. Following its publication of the world's first inflight connectivity (IFC) standard earlier this year, Seamless Air Alliance, a global community of airlines and technology leaders driving solutions to advance inflight connectivity, today announced the completion of Seamless Release 2.0.
This latest Release defines the information provided by each network component, enabling suppliers to design and build OpenIFC products using the modular architecture and open interfaces from its first release.
Have suggestions or topics we should focus on in the next episode? Email the host, Woodrow Bellamy at wbellamy@accessintel.com, or drop him a line on Twitter @WbellamyIIIAC.
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Check out the latest updates for our annual event, the Global Connected Aircraft Summit here: https://www.gcasummit.com/cabin-chats/
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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Oxford Researcher Talks Satellite Eavesdropping on Aircraft Connectivity
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, James Pavur, an Oxford University cybersecurity researcher and PhD student provides insights into his experience performing "satellite eavesdropping" on aircraft in-flight Internet data.
Pavur was part of a team of European experts that used home television equipment and specialized software to enable satellite eavesdropping on in-flight passenger Internet data, as Pavur demonstrated during a live presentation at Black Hat 2020. The team’s setup included a Selfsat satellite dish with a TBS-6983/6903 PCIe card/Digital Video Broadcast-Satellite tuner computer card.
Using the dish and tuner in combination with a program called EBS Pro that enables personal computer users to find and view satellite television feeds, Pavur's team was able to analyze 4 terabytes of data on signals from 18 satellites in geostationary orbit.
Have suggestions or topics we should focus on in the next episode? Email the host, Woodrow Bellamy at wbellamy@accessintel.com, or drop him a line on Twitter @WbellamyIIIAC.
Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsMag + www.aviationtoday.com.
Check out the latest updates for our annual event, the Global Connected Aircraft Summit here: https://www.gcasummit.com/cabin-chats/
Join our Avionics International LinkedIn group to suggest topics we should cover in our podcast, publications and events. www.linkedin.com/AvionicsMag
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Brad Grady, principal analyst for Northern Sky Research (NSR), gives some updates and insight on how COVID-19 is continuing to impact in-flight connectivity, antenna technology, the concept of free in-flight Internet and more.
Grady has given presentations at the Global Connected Aircraft Summit in recent years, and leads a group of NSR Analysts focused on Aeronautical and Land-Mobile opportunities, and authors NSR’s Maritime SATCOM Markets, Energy SATCOM Markets, and Government and Military Satellite Communications.
Have suggestions or topics we should focus on in the next episode? Email the host, Woodrow Bellamy at wbellamy@accessintel.com, or drop him a line on Twitter @WbellamyIIIAC.
Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsMag + www.aviationtoday.com.
Check out the latest updates for our annual event, now in a virtual format the Global Connected Aircraft Summit presents 'Cabin Chats.' Register here: https://www.gcasummit.com/cabin-chats/
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