Avionics

TruTrak is a mainstay in the experimental market with its well-regarded, sophisticated autopilots. Now, following the lead of EAA and Garmin, TruTrak aims to make its new Vizion autopilot available for certified airplanes. In this exlusive AVweb podcast, TruTrak’s Andrew Barker summarizes the product and the marketing plan. Duration: 6:40 File Size: 5.7 MB download […]

I’ve always viewed competition in aviation as a relative thing. In new aircraft costing upward of $400,000, price breaks of a few percentage points don’t really amount to much and matter more to the big-box flight schools who now seem to be the main buyers of piston singles than to individual owners. In any case, […]

Big data is a big thing for airlines, which monitor flights in real time to track maintenance and anomalies. Now the same capability is available for light aircraft, albeit on a reduced scale, in the form of the Canairy Cockpit Monitor sold by Airbly Inc. The company’s Chris VanHorn was showing the gadget at AirVenture […]

If you own a BendixKing KX155 or KX165-series navcomm radio, there is a good chance it has been across an avionics repair bench for a gas discharge display replacement. That’s an easy fix, but the obsolescence of the component will make future repairs more complex and expensive. BendixKing has a solution with a new LCD […]

Aspen is venturing into the experimental market with a micro GPS receiver that’s a suitable position source for ADS-B installations. At AirVenture 2016, the company announced the new NexNav Mico-I GPS. The device is part of the product line Aspen acquired when it bought Accord Technology last year. The unit, which is a WAAS-capable blind […]

If the age of the piston engine flight recorder isn’t upon us yet, you can see it from AirVenture 2016, where Jeff Van West spoke with Chris VanHorn from a company called Airbly. They make a clever cockpit monitoring system that automatically records critical flight parameters and downloads them to a smartphone for storage and […]

Innova Aerospace has two new upgrades available for King Air 90 series aircraft owners, the company announced this week at EAA AirVenture. Those in need of a cockpit overhaul can choose a full avionics retrofit with the AeroVue integrated flight deck by BendixKing. Replacing the old engines with two new GE H80s brings a “significant […]

The ADS-B market seems to be in the season for discounts and rebates and at AirVenture 2016 this week, Aspen Avionics announced its own program. The company will offer a $1000 discount off the purchase of an Evolution Pro 1000 primary flight display if it’s purchased with an Aspen or Aspen-compatible ADS-B system through the […]

PS Engineering unveiled two new audio panels to its lineup: the PMA450A and the PMA8000G. The PMA450A picks up where the older PMA450 left off and has a larger enhanced display and an easy-to-read white-text-on-black Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED). It also gets a new bezel-mounted USB-C charging port, which is smaller and more powerful […]

In response to customer demand, Avidyne announced a growing list of third-party navigation apps that will work with its IFD550/540/440 GPS navigators. The current list of apps now includes ForeFlight Mobile, Seattle Avionics FlyQ, Jeppesen Mobile Flight Deck, AVPlan EFB, Cloud Ahoy and AeroGlass. This connectivity is the result of Avidyne’s wireless SDK (software developer […]