AirVenture

People keep asking me what the big thing is at this year’s AirVenture and I keep not having an answer. From a news coverage point of view, it has been a very busy year for us, but I feel like we’re just doing a lot of wheel spinning without gaining much traction. I think part […]

You don’t have to hang around AirVenture at Oshkosh long to spot one of EAA’s modified VW Beetles. And boy has the fleet grown. What started with a few love-bugs has since grown to over 40 of them, and they’ve become critical to EAA’s show transportation network. AVweb’s intern Ashley Anglisano looked at the history […]

The PS Engineering PMA8000G is an advanced audio control panel that’s designed as a slide-in replacement for Garmin’s older GMA340 audio panel. Larry Anglisano got a demo of the system in the PS Engineering booth at AirVenture and prepared this video report. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2017, one of the major breakthroughs wasn’t just fancy glass panels in taildraggers, but Garmin’s heretofore experimental-only EFIS—the G3X—installed in CubCrafter’s new XCub. In this video, Randy Lervold tells why the company decided to do it. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2017, AVweb spoke with Mark Linsley about new functionality recently enabled on the Lynx transponder and some special show pricing. Duration: 4:41 File Size: 4.6 MB download here

Simulator maker Redbird brought a production version of its Guided Independent Flight Training (GIFT) to Oshkosh. The system has been many years and several versions in the making, but is now for sale with 33 modules teaching basic flight, private-pilot maneuvers and emergencies. Each module describes and demonstrates the topic, guides the student through flight […]

Moving the Cafe Foundation’s annual symposium to Oshkosh was a success, executive director Yolanka Wulff told AVweb this week, and the event will return to the same venue next year. The symposium was previously held in California, but Cafe tried the move, reasoning that since most of their attendees also go to AirVenture, an Oshkosh […]

With the sun slowly setting on Garmin’s landmark G1000 EFIS suite, aircraft manufacturers are rapidly switching to the follow-on G1000 NXi product. At AirVenture, Daher rolled out its version in the new TBM 910 single-engine turboprop in the first U.S. debut. Aerodynamically and performance wise, the 910 is similar to the 930 announced last year […]

General aviation advocacy groups have united in their efforts to oppose the privatization of the nation’s air traffic control system, and on Tuesday in Washington, the Senate Appropriations subcommittee took their side. The subcommittee approved a spending bill that would allot $16.7 billion to the FAA, and rejected the proposal to spin off ATC functions […]

At AirVenture 2017, Trig Avionics introduced a budget-based WAAS GPS receiver that meets the FAR 91.227 position source requirement for the FAA’s 2020 ADS-B mandate. Priced at $389, the TSO’d TN72 remote GPS receiver is compatible with Trig’s TT22 or TT31 TSO’d 1090ES transponders. The TN72 GPS doesn’t have an STC, so it’s intended as […]