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Symphony Aircraft joined the glass panel club on Tuesday and became the least expensive certified aircraft to offer the feature and the only one priced at less than $200,000. The two-place SA60, as it is now called, with the Glass IFR package, which includes the Avidyne Entegra primary and multi-function displays, the Avidyne Emax Engine […]

Glass panels have always been good at showing pilots what lay ahead but a new system created by Avidyne shows people on the ground what’s going on with planes in the air. FlightCenter, available on Avidyne’s Web site, allows anyone with the correct password to track any airplane equipped with the Multilink option on the […]

First there was enhanced vision, then synthetic vision and now there’s Forward Vision’s forward looking infrared (FLIR) system. As AVwebtold you last fall, Forward Vision, which is a subsidiary of Florida-based Aerocomp, introduced the system (for experimental aircraft only) at the 2004 AOPA Expo in Long Beach. Since then, the company has been looking at […]

The FAA has agreed that pilots flying aircraft with a new electronic chart display don’t have to carry paper charts as an alternative source of navigation information. However, even the folks promoting the new system say they’ll likely continue to carry the charts. This tempest in a teapot arose with the certification of the Avidyne […]

Williams International will supply its certified FJ33-4A small jet engine to Excel Jet for its single-engine four-seat Sport-Jet now in development, the two companies announced here yesterday. Excel Jet President Bob Bornhofen, who also developed the Maverick TwinJet, said the Williams engine is the only one that’s appropriately sized and FAA certified. Since he expects […]

For those pilots who dread hot sweaty summer cockpits, Lancair is promising no more discomfort and no more fiddling around with heat and A/C controls. Soon a “set-and-forget” climate-control system will be available factory-installed on the Columbia 350 and 400 aircraft. Set and forget means you can select 72 degrees on the ground in California […]

AVmail: April 11, 2005Reader mail this week about airborne cellphone use, privatizing Flight Service, medical certification for recreational pilots and much more.

COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #43: Summit Talks on AviationA informal meeting of the minds (such as they are) takes place each year where folks from many walks of life — but connected by aviation — discuss the state of the industry and relations among pilots, mechanics, and more. AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit tells […]

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