Avionics

In partnership with drone software management company Kittyhawk, the FAA has relaunched its B4UFLY mobile app for drone pilots. According to the FAA, B4UFLY was designed as a situational awareness tool for recreational drone users to help them figure out where they can and cannot fly in the national airspace system (NAS). The updated app […]

Infinite Flight is a mobile flight simulation and air traffic control app available for Android and iOS devices. In this AirVenture 2019 podcast, co-founder and CEO Laura Laban and digital marketing director Jason Rosewell told AVweb more about how it works and where it’s headed in the future.

The next generation of autoland systems may not require any ILS signals to guide them. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have equipped a Diamond DA42 with a system called C2Land that allows the aircraft to visually acquire the runway and then calculate a glideslope to put it on the numbers. Because the computer […]

There’s still a need for two important devices in a radio stack: a VHF comm radio and an audio control panel. PS Engineering’s new PAR200B handles both, but focuses on saving space with a remote-mount VHF radio that’s channeled and displayed directly on the audio panel. Shown at AirVenture this week, the PAR200B has a […]

Honeywell announced at Oshkosh that it has purchased TruTrak Flight Systems, an innovator in experimental-class autopilots that recently added applications in the certified world. TruTrak will become part of the BendixKing avionics group. “TruTrak is a natural fit with BendixKing, and this acquisition opens up an exciting new market to us,” says Carl Esposito, president […]

At AirVenture 2019 at Oshkosh, BendixKing was showing off three STC’d products, some of which have been snagged in the certification process for years. First, the KI300 retrofit EFIS, which the company calls AeroFlight. The big news surrounding the KI300 is that it can replace the aging and maintenance-intensive King KI256/255 vacuum-driven autopilot gyro that’s […]

The latest avionics are usually popular with the crowds at AirVenture and this year is no different. In this video, Larry Anglisano took a look at a handful of products that were standouts on opening day.

At AirVenture this week Bose announced the ProFlight Series II, an improved version of its ProFlight in-ear headset aimed at the turbine market. Key enhancements to the set include a much thinner, lighter and more flexible interface cable and improved stability when the set is on the head. Bose also updated the set’s tap control—the […]

Garmin has added features to the G5 and G3X Touch EFISs ahead of next week’s Oshkosh. New configurations of the G3X Touch for experimental aircraft will be available, while the G5 received incremental changes to add features for both certified and homebuilt aircraft. For the G5, Garmin has added outside-air temp, true airspeed and wind […]

Garmin has filled out its lineup of modern panel-mount, IFR-approved GPS units with the GNC 355, which combines an approach-capable GPS with a comm radio for $6995. Earlier this year, Garmin introduced a standalone IFR GPS and a version with a built-in Mode S transponder and ADS-B Out capabilities. The GNC 355 carries many of […]