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MINERAL WELLS, TX (July 29, 2015) – Cool City Avionics, a manufacturer of low cost, professional-grade autopilots and stability augmentation systems, wishes to express its strong support for helicopter industry-proposed changes to FAA certification requirements for single-engine IFR. In June 2015, an Association and Industry White Paper was prepared, in cooperation with the Helicopter Association […]

The two-seat electric-powered airplane now in development by the Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. will have a flight duration up to three hours, CEO George Bye said at EAA AirVenture this week. The airplane will be certified under Part 21, the FAA’s rules for primary aircraft, which are limited to VFR flying (day and night) and […]

The German luggage company Rimowa, known worldwide for its grooved aluminum-body luggage, has resurrected the historic Junkers F13 airplane that was constructed with the same metal.The company has plans to build and certify it in Switzerland, followed by certification in the U.S. Rimowa has a replica on display this week at AirVenture and on Tuesday […]

You can fly into AirVenture using either VFR or IFR arrival procedures, but both require significant planning, familiarization with the published NOTAM, and a sharp scan of traffic. In this video, ride shotgun with AVweb news team members as they arrive and demonstrate how it’s done. view on YouTube

DENVER, July 16, 2015 -Today MYGOFLIGHT, maker of premium iPad and tablet gear for pilots, will conduct three seminars called Advanced iPad Use In-Flight – Connected Flight(TM) Edition sponsored by Jeppesen during EAA’s Airventure 2015 in Oshkosh. This seminar will show pilots how to integrate and use the iPad during taxi, departure, cruise, diversion, approach […]

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), today announced the GPS 20A, an ADS-B Out compliant WAAS GPS position source for experimental amateur-built (EAB) and light sport aircraft (LSA). For experimental aircraft owners that already have a Mode S Extended Squitter (ES) transponder such as the GTX 23ES, the non-certified GSP 20A […]

Most instrument rated pilots log about 10 percent of their flight time in IMC. That same percentage holds true for night operations. When you combine the two, encountering IMC at night is a rare occurrence for many. Most of us recognize that night IMC presents a high risk environment (statistically five-times more so than day […]

A father and son aboard a Cessna 150 were killed when their aircraft was reportedly “broadsided” by an Air Force F-16 over Moncks Corner, South Carolina, on Tuesday. The F-16 pilot, Maj. Aaron Johnson, ejected and was not hurt. The jet crashed in a wooded area and nobody on the ground was hurt. The NTSB […]

AOPA is hoping for some movement on the relaxation of third class aviation medical requirements “in the next few weeks,” according to a report recorded for AOPA Live. Jim Coon, AOPA’s senior vice president of government affairs, told the program that medical reform remains AOPA’s top priority. “This is an issue we are working on […]

Flight instructors often note to the student, early in the training cycle, that there are back-up systems in case the primary equipment fails. However, with respect to the single engine purring away on the nose of the aircraft they will often add, “Don’t worry, they hardly ever fail, and if it does, the airplane will […]