The car’s not here yet, but a flying motorcycle has arrived… complete with its own headlight and license plate. And if you too are completely insane, you can have one! That may be a common reaction, but it may also be not all that fair. The facts are that Larry Neal, president of Butterfly LLC, […]
Recently released Service Bulletin 569 calls for the retirement (within the next three years) of some 5100 crankshafts born of a suspect hammer forging process performed by a specific (former) Lycoming supplier in the years 1997 through 2002. According to Lycoming’s Ian Walsh, who spoke with AVweb yesterday, Lycoming “knows they’re OK” (the crankshafts) and […]
AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” contest is sponsored by Aviation Safety magazine, the monthly journal of risk management and accident prevention. Thanks to all the pilots and AVweb readers who took time to nominate their favorite FBOs in our “FBO of the Week” contest. Today’s ribbon finds its target in Florida. AVweb’s “FBO of the […]
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Online Now: Marion Blakey, in her own words. Preview: While FAA Administrator Marion Blakey has this week been preoccupied with contract negotiations (or lack of same) with air traffic controllers, all that wrangling is unlikely to have any practical impact on pilots (at least for now). The impasse, as it is now designated, is part […]
Garmin’s 396 offers an uber-impressive handheld color moving-map gps in a unit that is terrain-aware, capable of imitating a full panel of flight instruments, and brimming with more features than most average pilots might safely use while attempting to concurrently control an aircraft. An offering for those who tend to shop in another price point […]
One after another, squeaking onto the runway under the hot Florida sun, a seemingly endless stream of bright yellow Cubs arrived at Sun ‘n Fun Monday afternoon. They kept coming…. for half an hour… then another half hour…. and finally, after an hour and a half, all 108 Cubs had landed neatly, and taxied off […]
Avidyne Corp. made the most of this week’s aviation gathering to announce a slew of new products and services. The company’s TAS600 series of Traffic Advisory Systems is now approved for retrofit installation in the Garmin G1000 flight deck. The TAS provides verbal alerts on the position of other transponder-equipped aircraft within a range of […]
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