NASA – which always has a cool setup at Oshkosh, space suits and all – quietly conducted research last month under the radar of the world’s biggest airshow. In the basement of EAA’s Air Academy Lodge, a team of NASA staffers had pilots fly an X-Plane sim to test a cellphone app designed to avoid […]
Does anybody not have a smartphone these days? Actually, some people don’t. I ran into a guy in an airport the other day using the old standby flip phone with what looked like a mono screen. Imagine! He’s probably better for it, not feeling the need to constantly fill every idle second fiddling with what’s […]
Adventure Pilot’s iFly GPS tablet app is unique because it can run on both iOS and Android tablets, as well as on Adventure Pilot’s dedicated GPS navigator, which is packaged in a bright-screen, 7-inch tablet. Adventure introduced the new 740 GPS at Sun ‘n Fun 2015, and in this video, Aviation Consumereditor Larry Anglisano takes […]
ForeFlight introduced a major upgrade to its popular navigation app at Sun ‘n Fun 2015 in Lakeland, Florida. ForeFlight’s Tyson Weihs gives an overview of the app in this AVweb Product Minute video. view on YouTube
At the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Dallas, Avidyne introduced a new remote Bluetooth keyboard for its IFD540/440 FMS systems. AVweb took a quick look. view on YouTube
We’re seeing more capable navigation apps for Android tablets, including the new AvNav EFB app. It has some of the same features that iOS users are accustomed to, including plates-on-map and DUATS flight planning and filing. In this video, AvNav’s Sanjay Kumar offers a tour of the app’s functions during its debut at AirVenture 2014 […]
Garmin has its pilot watch, and now Hilton Software has an interface that sends wireless flight plan data from its WingX Pro 7 iPad app to the Pebble e-paper watch. Hilton Goldstein gave AVweb an overview of the interface from Sun ‘n Fun 2014 in Lakeland, Florida. view on YouTube
At Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida, popular app maker ForeFlight is showing off the latest version of its flight planning and management app, ForeFlight 6. The upgrade provides split-screen capability for the Stratus portable ADS-B/EFIS, new terrain plotting features and improved flight plan filing. view on YouTube
In glass cockpits and even in those where the pilots suffer through the tragedy of flying behind steam gauges, a back-up gryo is a good idea. Increasingly, these are solid-state gyros with their own self-contained ADAHRS and batteries. At AEA in Nashville, AVweb shot this brief product tour of the Sandia Aerospace SAI gyro. Retail […]
The Aircraft Electronics Association opened in 57th annual convention in Nashville this week with good news: Avionics sales for 2013 were up 6.9% in 2013 over the previous year. In this video interview, AEA’s Paula Derks says about 23 new products will be introduced in Nashville. view on YouTube
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