Equipment Reviews

Bose wasted no time introducing their eagerly-awaited Aviation Headset X at 1998’s EAA AirVenture Oskhosh. It was the first product demo on the first morning of the event. You got the feeling they were just chomping at the bit to unleash their “LightSPEED Slayer.” Since August 1998, Bose has had to slay their own dragons. […]

First Pioneers Tapped For Ultralight Hall of Fame Twenty-four EAA conventions back, a flyer of slight stature stepped off theOshkosh grass and into the air – before his Easy Riser tumbled to the groundbefore tens of thousands of eyes. But three years later, John Moody’s minormishap in his McCullough 101 chain-saw-engine-powered flyer was hardlyremembered compared […]

“Sayyour altitude?” No other three-word snippet of ATC phraseology strikes such fear into the heart of apilot. You know you’re in radar contact, that you’re squawking Mode C, that yourtransponder reply light is bright enough to read by, and that the controller knowsperfectly well what your altitude is. “Say your altitude?” is ATC rhetoric for”both […]

This report summarizes what we know about nine different handheldaviation GPS receivers that are now available. In an attempt to compare competitivemodels, we’ve divided the field into three subgroups. Our summary and recommendationsappear at the end. Prices shown are manufacturers’ “Minimum Advertised Prices” which is theprice that most mailorder dealers advertise. Change History: GPS Without […]

The handheld GPS market has been eerily quiet lately.During 1996 and 1997, it seemed as if a new aviation handheld was being announced everyfew months, as manufacturers jockied for position to out-feature and under-price thecompetition. But Sun ‘n Fun 1998 saw only one new product announcement in thiscategory: the Lowrance AirMap 100. During the year […]

SIGNALS CONNECTORS SN3308 P1 SN3308 P2 SN3308 P3 GX50 GPS RS08 RELAY NSD-360 PLUG KNS-80 NAV#1 DATA LDR KR-87 ADF KMA-24 MBR KG-102A GYRO FLUX GATE DIMMER HI 26 M DIMMER LO 28 VDC CBKR 1 1 1 11-12 14 28 VDC CBKR 20 GROUND 3 16 2 20 1 15 Y GROUND 22 34 […]

After seeing theSN3308, I naturally assumed that its inventor and Sandel founder GerryBlock was a seasoned veteran of the avionics industry. So when I flew down to SandelAvionics in a northern suburb of San Diego to interview him for this article, I was quitesurprised to learn that the SN3308 was Block’s very first aviation product. […]

A couple of months ago, Ihad Avionics West replace some of the avionics in my 1979Cessna T310R. In particular, I changed out my decade-old Loran for a II Morrow GX50approach-certified GPS. At the same time, I yanked out the airplane’s original-equipmenthorizontal situation indicator – an old vacuum-driven Century NSD-360 – and installedthe new Sandel Avionics […]

All ELTs have one thing in common, their main purpose is to notify potential rescuers(by different means) that an aircraft has run into a solid object and someone could be inneed of help. But the technology for doing this is in the midst of a big change. Most current ELTs operate at 121.50 and 243.00 […]