Avionics

Corporate buyouts, mergers and acquisitions are frequent features on the global business landscape. When one is announced, the press releases babble on about how market synergies and leveraged branding will soon make the customer experience a veritable orgasmic cornucopia of products and services and competitive prices. The reality is that when big companies buy little […]

I hear it consistently, Yeah, Ill do the ADS-B bit later, once there are more boxes to chose from and the price comes down, Ive got lots of time. Maybe not. While the sky is not falling, pilots are notorious for procrastinating when it comes to compliance with regs-ask any AME whether the demand for […]

Jeppesen has brought back its Chart Clinic educational program with a modern twist. Jeppesen’s Reggie Arsenault talks about the integration of its apps for IFR and VFR charts into the new series of Chart Clinics. view on YouTube

Avidyne’s IFD540 navigator has been stalled in certification for a couple of years, but the company said it plans to begin deliveries at the end of June 2014. Aviation Consumer’s Larry Anglisano had a look at the IFD540 during a flight demo at Sun ‘n Fun 2014 and got an update on the project from […]

When Cessna introduced the Cardinal in 1968, it was, by the standards of the day, quite leap. Sans the familiar struts of the 172/182 line and with its rakish windshield, the Cardinal could fairly be called sleek. It was large doors that allowed easy access to the both the front and rear seats, the Cardinal […]

Back when I was actively flight instructing and overseeing a small FBO flightschool in Connecticut, I used to think that how a CFI dressed mattered a lot. I still think that, but perhaps deleting a lot. This came to mind with this weeks news report that one Mitchell Casado, the plaid-wearing sim instructor CNN used […]

Winding up my Aero coverage this week, I spent the day and a morning at Pipistrel, in Slovenia. If you dont have a map handy, Pipistrels factory is located atAjdovscina, just east of Trieste on the Italian border. Its in a beautiful broad valley with a Mediterranean-type climate and a population that seems to be […]

European pilots will be able to download the popular Garmin Pilot app by the end of May. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli filed this report with Garmin’s Jessica Koss from Aero Friedrichshafen. Duration: 3:33 File Size: 3.0 MB download here

Garmins Pilot app, heretofore limited to U.S. subscribers, will have international support in May, the company announced at Aero Friedrichshafen last week. International coverage will include navigation data, charts, plates and sectionals for Europe and weather coverage for Europe and Australia, including METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs and AIRMETs and satellite and radar data. However, weather data […]

As Sun n Fun drew to a close over the weekend, Id say that most of the people I spoke to deemed it about average. As Ive said before, its pointless to draw any conclusions about the aviation economy based on how vendors saw the booth traffic or what the daily gate was. Weve long […]