The return of air demonstration teams to the Air Venture air show was marked in 2016 with the graceful routine of the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds over Wittman Field. The nine-plane precision formation aerobatics display took place on the final two days at the show. Another Canadian aircraft wowed the crowd. The gigantic Martin […]
AirVenture 2019 may be cheek-by-jowl with spiffy little two-seat LSAs, but four years from now, sport airplanes with four seats might just be a thing, according to Dan Johnson of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association. In this podcast recorded Sunday at Oshkosh, Johnson said the FAA is beyond the talking stage. “They are moving on […]
Texas Aircraft is jump-starting the launch of its new Colt light sport aircraft with a $12,000 discount for orders placed this week at AirVenture. The Colt was soft-launched earlier this year but as AirVenture gets underway, Texas Aircraft is ginning up serial production and expects formal approval under ASTM consensus standards in a few weeks. […]
Redbird Flight Simulations introduced GIFT Instrument Rating, a companion training program for Redbird simulators that is uses AI-monitored lessons and feedback to teach instrument concepts, at AirVenture 2019. GIFT Instrument Rating is the next phase of the company’s Guided Independent Flight Training (GIFT) program, which debuted in 2017. Like its predecessor, GIFT Private Pilot, GIFT […]
Last year, Oshkosh saw record crowds, playing host to about 601,000 visitors from 87 countries, along with accommodating more than 10,000 aircraft during the course of the show. AirVenture 2018 kept up with the trend toward increased focus on training—companies like Lycoming and Piper were noting that the surge in pilot training had been good […]
Australia has grounded all 63 of the domestically built GippsAero GA8 Airvans registered in that country and EASA is allowing ferry permits only in Europe after a fatal crash in Sweden killed all nine on board. The aircraft was on a skydiving flight. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority suspended GA8 operations for 15 days starting […]
Some five inches of heavy rain ahead of opening day for AirVenture 2019 have turned parking and camping areas a bit soupy, but EAA says as of Sunday morning, arrivals haven’t been affected. EAA’s Dick Knapinski said in this podcast that field conditions for grass parking are still too wet. “We’re going to check again […]
The latest in a series of floatplane crashes in Alaska has created a notable statistic on the type of aircraft involved. On Friday a Rust’s Flying Services DHC-2 Beaver was involved in a takeoff mishap (it never got airborne) on Tutka Bay in southwest Alaska and one of the seven people aboard, a 57-year-old Maryland […]
This week, AVweb’s news roundup found reports on an upcoming fly-in in New Mexico, an aircraft financing company’s 25th anniversary celebration and a new training management solution for flight schools. The 29th annual Land of Enchantment Fly-In (LOEFI) is scheduled to take place on Sept. 21, 2019, at Double Eagle II Airport (KAEG) in Albuquerque, […]
Following the concept of the skyBeacon, uAvionix is developing another wingtip-mounted ADS-B Out solution featuring antenna diversity. Called the skyBeacon X, the unit will employ dual antennas—hence the diversity name—with one facing down and one facing upward. Certification is expected in 2021. The motivation for the new device is that NAV Canada is likely to […]
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