Video of the Week

Beginning next week, pilots will need ADS-B if they want to fly in certain U.S. airspace. In case you didn’t get it done, Avweb’s Paul Bertorelli covers the options in this video. For many pilots, not having ADS-B won’t impact their flying much, if at all.

It’s said that the uAvionix skyBeacon ADS-B Out device is the easiest way to comply with the approaching 2020 ADS-B mandate, but how easy is it to install? To find out, Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano found an airplane that needed to be upgraded, found a competent A&P to install it and rolled his cameras […]

Cirrus has had great success in retail high performance aircraft market, but now it hopes to break into the training segment with a new airplane called the TRAC. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli recently flew with Ivy Mciver from Cirrus to wring the airplane out.

In this stunning timelapse film, Chris Pritchard expertly reveals the hidden views and complex layers of movement of the world’s third busiest airport. It’s the culmination of three years of extensive shooting and editing.

For backup or primary, there’s a still a need for a reliable, rugged and inexpensive handheld aviation transceiver and the Japanese-made $199 PJ2 built for Sporty’s is the latest to hit the market. At first blush the PJ2 has useful features including built-in GA headset jacks, smart power options and tight receiver sensitivity. Aviation Consumer […]

Some older bizjets and even some turboprops are still flying around with Carter-era avionics because of the sizable teardown and costs. Avidyne is looking to change that with its Atlas FMS. This flight management system trickles down from Avidyne’s IFD-series panel navigators, but it’s packaged in a chassis that fits the center pedestal of some […]

The Deland Sport Aviation Showcase for 2019 opened this week in Deland, Florida, and AVweb was there. In this quick walking tour of the show, Paul Bertorelli reports on a new autogyro from Europe, a redesigned LSA motorglider called the Sun Dancer, a multipurpose EFIS display from the Italian company MAV, a new engine option […]

When the tin foil hat crowd sees one of these airplanes, we’re sure they’re sure it’s proof that chem trails are a real thing. But hey, it’s just cloudseeding, which is a real thing, especially in the arid west where every little drop of rain counts. In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli interviews cloudseeding pilot […]

Emergency Autoland is the latest layer of embedded automation in Garmin’s Autonomi family of flight technologies for the G3000 integrated avionics suite. Coupled with an autothrottle, the autopilot’s Emergency Descent Mode and Electronic Stability and Protection, the system ultimately puts the aircraft back on the runway when the pilot can’t. With final FAA certification pending, […]

Precision Flight Controls launched its new FAA-approved King Air B200 advanced aviation training device (AATD) at this year’s NBAA convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bill Grava took AVweb for a tour of the simulator at the show.