Podcast

Texas Sport’s Kurt Sehnert talks with Kitplanes magazine‘s Marc Cook about the first completed Texas Sport Cub, which was on prominent display in the company’s booth at Sun ‘n Fun. The Texas Sport Cub is a derivative of the Legend Cub factory-built Light Sport aircraft that is constructed as an Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft. It can be […]

To wrap up our daily Sun ‘n Fun coverage, we have a quick chat with ConocoPhillips’ Harold Tucker, director of technical information and training. An industry veteran, Tucker offers his thoughts on the ideal oil and external additives and gives us a few tips that could help pilots and owners get more life from their […]

One of the more visible of the “new generation” of builder-assist programs, Glasair Aviation’s Two Weeks to Taxi program has been continually updated since its inception in 2006. Company president Mikael Via talks about the program and the possible impact of changes to the 51% Rule. This podcast brought to you by Bose Corporation and […]

Seeing through clouds is the coming technology, but it comes with a price. Grand Rapids’ Todd Stehouwer talks about the technological challenges of implementing synthetic vision in an Experimental-class EFIS. This podcast brought to you by Bose Corporation and WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather. Duration: File Size: download here

If your older SR22 isn’t quite as fast as you’d like it to be, Tornado Alley has a solution: You can now buy aftermarket turbonormalizers for all but the earliest SR22 from Tornado Alley Turbo, which provides systems for factory turbo’d SR22s. TAT’s Tim Roehl told AVweb about these systems when we visited the TAT […]

At the Sun ‘n Fun show, Liberty CEO Keith Markley told us about an improved version of the sophisticated XL-2 trainer called the Vanguard. It sports a higher gross weight, toe brakes – replacing the original XL-2’s finger brakes – and the new Evolution EFIS from Aspen. Hear about it all in this podcast. This […]

Some CFIs who are also aircraft owners make a little money on the side by instructing in their own airplanes, although insurance policies don’t cover them for the risks. Avemco’s Jim Lauerman told AVweb in this podcast that the company will soon introduce a specific policy product to address this tiny niche of the market. […]

The Dominican Republic is opening its doors to general aviation, and a large delegation of officials was at Sun ‘n Fun to get the word out. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke to Secretary of State Jose Thomas Garcia. This podcast brought to you by Bose Corporation and WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather. Duration: File Size: download […]

Any pilot with designs on flying for a major airline will need a four-year degree – and to make that easier, Delta Connection and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University have joined in a program to give students who earn their ratings at the Delta Connection Academy 36 credit hours toward a degree. In this podcast from […]

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 […]