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Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb | Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos AVweb‘s sister publication, Kitplanes magazine, interviews Advanced Flight Systems president Robert Hickman to learn about his company’s latest EFIS, engine monitor, and angle-of-attack systems available for experimental aircraft. Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here […]

Aviydne and Garmin have largely owned the market for light aircraft electronic flight display systems in recent year, while Bendix/King has been dormant. But later this year, the company will begin delivering its new Apex Edge glass system, a combination PFD/MFD integrated package suitable for retrofit in older aircraft. In this podcast, Bendix/King’s Dan Barks […]

Control Vision is well known for its extensive and flexible line of PDA-based GPS navigators. Although these products are flexible, buyers have asked for solutions that require fewer wires and individual components. This week at Sun ‘n Fun, Control Vision responded with a new product based on HP’s diminutive iPaq Travel Companion. At $695, it […]

Cessna’s VP of sales and marketing, Roger Whyte, told AVWeb this week that even though it’s focusing much of its attention on the recently acquired Columbia composite line, Cessna is still on track to build the so-called next-generation single. It will occupy a narrow niche between the 182/206 and the 350 and 400 from Columbia. […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos Thanks to Dan Gryder and our friends at Herpa Wings, “Why I Want to Fly the DC-3” essay contest winner Christa Mabry kicked off Sun ‘n Fun in style. Dan and his crew had planned a very special surprise, allowing our contest winners to take the […]

For the past five years, Sferics technology has taken a backseat to datalinked weather as a means of skirting convective weather. But Avidyne hopes to change that with the introduction of a new state-of-the-art lightning detector system called TWX670. Like Stormscope and Strike Finder technology, it detects and plots distant lightning strikes, but unlike earlier […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos Lancair’s Evolution — a turbine-powered kit aircraft — made its public debut at the Sun ‘n Fun air show in Lakeland, Florida April 7. AVweb‘s Glenn Pew was there and posted this same-day video coverage of the aircraft’s arrival: Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad […]

As you read on AVweb, air traffic controller Patrick Eberhart of Detroit Metro TRACON is this year’s winner of the NATCA Archie League Awards. In this podcast, you’ll hear the dramatic audio of Eberhart guiding an aircraft with malfunctioning instruments and low fuel to a safe landing. Plus, you’ll hear other amazing recordings, featuring some […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We’ve seen some low-flying aircraft in the past, but this clip, originally from Military.com, gave a us a little thrill (on the rare occasions we weren’t peeking between our fingers): Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the […]

Monday’s podcast with a California pilot who was intercepted and shadowed by an F-16 in a military operating area (MOA) ignited a firestorm of debate on our blog, the AVweb Insider. Lt. Col Fred Clifton, a retired F-16 pilot who now instructs at the Air Force’s weapons school at Nellis Air Force Base in Las […]