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U.K.-based Trig Avionics has been a go-to company for small radios and transponders that fit into a standard instrument hole and now the company is expanding into the rack-mount market. At the Aircraft Electronics Association Convention in Dallas on Wednesday, Trig announced two panel-mount comm radios with unique features. The $3070 TY96 is a 10-watt […]

For what can be a long list of new product introductions, AEA has a great strategy: Give every company five minutes on the stage to make the elevator pitch, then on to the next one. Still, with 33 new products on Wednesday’s opening day, it was two-hour slog to sit through it all. I amused […]

At the 2015 Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Dallas, Aspen Avionics introduced a new angle of attack system for its popular Evolution EFIS system. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli flew the system in a Cirrus and prepared this video. view on YouTube

Some insist it began production as the world’s largest flying sweet potato and evolved into Snoopy crouching as he waited for his supper. The original PA-23, the Apache, seemed almost round and had such modest powerplants that single-engine operation could be hazardous—just as with other twins with small engines. The last versions, the Aztec series, […]

While the rest of the world pedals hard to keep up with ADS-B, Aspen Avionics announced a surprise new product at the Aircraft Electronics Association show in Dallas on Wednesday: a sophisticated angle- of-attack system for its popular Evolution line of PFDs and MFDs. Aspen joins a small number of companies offering AoA systems, but […]

Amid signs that avionics shops are busier than they have been in nearly a decade, the 58thAircraft Electronics Association convention opens this week in Dallas with a sold-out hall and record pre-registrations. “Since the beginning of 2015, it seems like general aviation, especially the electronics industry, has really been picking up some steam,” says Paula […]

Ahead of the 2015 Aircraft Electronics Association trade show, we reached out to AEA president Paula Derks for her show forecast. She answered a few questions about the ADS-B mandate and what FAA nextgen specialist Mike Whitaker may have to say at the show, as well as hinting at some of the product announcements in […]

AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli spoke with Tim Taylor of FreeFlight Systems about the company’s EquipIt 2020 initiative, which aims to provide low-cost equipage options to meet the FAA’s coming ADS-B mandate. With the Aircraft Electronics Association show going on now in Dallas, Taylor explained the logistics of FreeFlight’s RANGR Lite system, encouraged owner-pilots to equip sooner […]

L-3 Aviation was among several ADS-B manufacturers presenting new, mandate-compliant solutions to the flight training community at the 2015 National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. In this video, Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano presents an overview of the Lynx product line with L-3’s Todd Scholten. view on YouTube

Letter of the Week:Altimeter Under Pressure I am a single-engine aircraft owner and private pilot that only flies VFR. So the following question is based on my 2,000 hours of flying over the past 33 years. My Grumman Cheetah is equipped with the standard altimeter, and my airplane has a Mode C transponder. I also […]