Aircraft installation & operational aspects of the Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System (AeroMACS)

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an analysis done at Honeywell on the electromagnetic compatibility issues of installing an AeroMACS (Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System) Radio on aircraft equipped with other on-board Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) radios. This paper describes a typical aircraft radio frequency interference environment, analyzes the effect of the AeroMACS transmitter on other onboard receivers and the effect of other onboard transmitters on the AeroMACS receiver and summarizes the isolation requirements for installing AeroMACS radios on Aircraft.