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Designed for primarily for VFR aircraft, the Aspen Evolution E5 Electronic Flight Instrument has received STC approval for installations without an onboard GPS. That is, it’s meant to be installed with a conventional set of nav/comm radios. The E5 is approved for IFR flight when it’s connected to a TSO’d GPS. According to the company, […]

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is proposing that the Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) distance from cloud minima in Class D airspace be increased in line with Standard European Rules of the Air (SERA). Under new proposals, aircraft flying under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) within Class D airspace below 3,000ft will be required to maintain 1,000ft […]

Eagle Cap Software introduces feedback-driven v1.1 of its iPad-dedicated software. Aero Charting v1.1 now includes VFR sectionals and IFR enroute charts and extends coverage to include the Caribbean, Alaska, and Hawaii. It is immediately available on the App Store. Brian Leutschaft, Program Manager – Eagle Cap Software, says, “These charts are a necessity for the […]

Our resident curmudgeon is in his 90s now and doesn’t make it out to the pilot’s lounge at the virtual airport as often as he used to. About five years ago, Old Hack abruptly sold the immaculate Piper Super Cruiser he had bought almost new and announced that was done flying as pilot in command. […]

Anytime you get a group of flight instructors together, the topic of weather will enter the conversation in some form. It may range from how crummy it always seems to be when a CFI has nothing but primary students on the schedule to how miserable it is to preheat a Cessna 152 in the winter […]

Perhaps you’ve seen the widely distributed aviation video 178 Seconds to Live. The narrative starts: “The sky is overcast and the visibility poor. That reported five-mile visibility looks more like two and you cannot judge the height of the overcast. . .” It continues: “. . . You find yourself unconsciously easing back just a […]

Jeppesen, a part of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, recently introduced new features for Mobile FliteDeck version 2.7 to enhance situational awareness and provide data for both IFR and VFR flying conditions. A new VFR theme provides general and business aviation pilots with the ability to switch between IFR and VFR data on the real time, […]

Jeppesen, a part of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, recently introduced a new version of its popular flight information solution for private pilots who fly under visual flight rules – Mobile FliteDeck VFR. The new 2.0 version of the iPad-based Mobile FliteDeck VFR solution builds on its ability to simplify complex procedures and present critical flight […]

ATC audioof a Houston controller talking a VFR pilot through an emergency IFR approach into Houston Executive Airport included instruction on setting up a GPS, vectors, and managing the Cessna 172’s engine as it descended from 8500 feet. Pilot Mark Nelson had called ATC for help when he was trapped above clouds flying his Cessna […]

At AEA in Nashville, Aspen introduced its new VFR EFIS, an entry-level, affordable glass suite for owners who don’t need full IFR capability. AVweb takes a video tour of the new product. view on YouTube