Equipment Reviews

It’s probably no coincidence that the publishers of the new nonfiction aviation book, Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel, chose to release it at the beginning of the peak airline travel season. The book is written by James Fallows, and may become the book of choice this summer for frustrated […]

LATEST FROM GAMI! GAMI has received its long-awaited STC for the installation of GAMIjectorsTM on TCM IO-360 and TSIO-360 engines found on the Mooney 231, Piper Turbo-Arrow and Seneca, Cessna Skymaster (including Turbo and Pressurized), etc. Only the TSIO-360-MB engine (Mooney 252) is excluded from the STC. GAMI is also now offering GAMIjectorsTM for Lycomings! […]

LATEST FROM GAMI! GAMI has received its long-awaited STC for the installation of GAMIjectorsTM on TCM IO-360 and TSIO-360 engines found on the Mooney 231, Piper Turbo-Arrow and Seneca, Cessna Skymaster (including Turbo and Pressurized), etc. Only the TSIO-360-MB engine (Mooney 252) is excluded from the STC. GAMI is also now offering GAMIjectorsTM for Lycomings! […]

There is no piece of luggage closer to the heart of any pilot than his or her flight bag. The one I use at work is your basic black, square model with little combination locks on the clasps. It is standard airline issue – something that every airline pilot you see will have some version […]

In the aftermath of Part One of this two-part series on installing and flying with Unison Industries’ Limited Authority Spark Advance Regulator ignition system, or LASAR, for short, many readers wrote me, complimentary and kind, inquisitive about various points and, ultimately, impatient for the appearance of this Part Two. Patience may not be its own […]

I‘m really glad that using the latest version of Unison Industries’ Limited Authority Spark Advance Regulator (LASAR) is far easier than installing it. Through no fault of the Unison’s LASAR hardware itself, a team comprised of one aircraft owner, one experienced IA, and one factory field representative from Unison managed to take six or seven […]

Books reviewed for this article: Violation, by Howard Fried Paper; 184 pp; Kindred Spirit Press Inc.; 1999; U.S. $29.95 Flying & Learning: Basics For Every Pilot, by William “Phil” Heitman Paper; 156 pp; Dreamflyer Publications; 1997; U.S. $14.95 TRACON, by Paul McElroy Paper; 493 pp; Japphire Productions LLC, 2000; U.S. $7.50 So, You Want To […]

Frankly, I think I was conned. While I’m not a GPS-junkie (explained later), my saliva glands were stimulated by the first announcement of the GPSMAP 295. Now THIS is what I’ve been expecting to see come out of today’s technology. And when I first heard Mike was getting a demo unit to evaluate and review […]

  Also see Mike Busch’s review of LightSPEED’s top-of-the-line 25XL headset.   LightSPEED just introduced a what? Did you say a passive headset? In the year 2000? Are they nuts? Well, yes, LightSPEED’s latest headset is indeed passive. And no, they’re not nuts. In fact, after having just flown my Cessna T310R across the country […]

In this four-part series, AVweb provides an in-depth look at aviation life rafts. We examine the regulatory requirements, the common-sense requirements and what you should look for when selecting an aviation life raft. We also examine both the approved and unapproved rafts for the GA market and let you know which ones will more likely […]