AirVenture 2022 Video

A company called SayWeather was showing its automated weather advisory systems at AirVenture, which use solar-powered wireless weather sensors, a processing console and a transceiver for broadcasting the data. Larry Anglisano took a look at the setup with SayWeather’s George Domedion.

Elixir Aircraft’s EASA-certified two-seat Elixir comes in two versions, a Rotax 912 iS-powered trainer and a Rotax 915 iS-equipped traveler model. In this video from AirVenture 2022, company co-founder Cyril Champenois discusses plans to bring the aircraft to the U.S. market along with its design, performance and features.

Scott Firsing provides an overview of Alsim’s ALSR20 flight training device (FTD) in this product minute. Introduced in 2020, the ALSR20 was designed to be an exact replica of the Cirrus SR20 aircraft.

Asked if the new company owner Chuck Surack was around, an Enstrom employee at the company’s AirVenture booth said, “He’s been here every day.” Surack, a helicopter pilot and Enstrom owner, was enthusiastic about acquiring the company when he met with AVweb for a recent telephone podcast. He agreed to a short (he’s busy) on-camera […]

Extra features in a panel-mount intercom can be great. But a manufacturer adding something “just because we can” might ramp up the price with bells and whistles that are rarely, if ever, used in the real world. PS Engineering, based in Tennessee, addressed this with its latest intercom option. Technical Project Manager James Krueger explains.

Stewart McQuillan is a former Royal Air Force Tornado pilot who suffered a triple spinal injury in a takeoff accident. It left him wheelchair-bound, but he regained his pilot license through the Douglas Bader Foundation. Bader lost both legs in a 1931 flying accident, talked his way back into RAF service, and led a wing […]

As expected, the choked supply chain meant fewer new product announcements at the big show at Oshkosh, and unanimously, showgoers reported challenges sourcing products and vendors said there were serious issues getting components to build them. In this video, Aviation Consumer Magazine Editor Larry Anglisano and KITPLANES Magazine Editor Marc Cook talk it through, while […]

High-def graphics engines have made flight simulators ever more realistic and capable. Infinite Flight has applied this to mobile platforms like the iPhone and iPad. In this product minute, Infinite Flight’s Laura Laban explains how the app works. The free version of it has five different aircraft.

uAvionix was the new kid on the block at AirVenture just a few years ago, and this year it was showing a maturing and diversifying product line that includes a variety of ADS-B equipment (over 50,000 units have been sold) and flight displays. Larry Anglisano spent some time at the uAvionix booth with Shane Woodson […]

At AirVenture 2022 at Oshkosh, ForeFlight was showing a new portable ADS-B receiver called the Sentry Plus, which has decent battery life and better power management, plus a new digital display. The company was also showing some useful features to the Mobile app, including an enhanced weight and balance utility and hazard awareness for preflight […]