Ownership

With a massive AD against ECI cylinders in the offing, we would like to know reader experiences not just with ECI cylinders, but other brands as well. If you’ve got five minutes to spare, you can tell us about your satisfaction–or lack thereof–with aircraft cylinders you’ve been flying behind. Just click here to take the […]

Its an article of faith that one reason flying activity is in the crapper is because avgas costs, on average, about $6 a gallon. Maybe thats true, maybe it isnt, but like many of us in the aviation business, I suspect the high price of fuel is just one reason for declining flight activity and […]

The Citabria is a nice, modern taildragger and one for which parts are readily available, so it’s a perfect refurb project. John Myers of Sequim, Washington, sent us this report on his project: This was a project completed at an airpark home, in a garage-hangar.I had thehelp from a youngA&P and neighbor A/I for inspections.We […]

Heres my definition of a bad day: You overhauled your Barons IO-520s a couple of years ago using cylinders from ECI and now the FAA would like you to remove those jugs and replace them with something else. Round it off and call that about $25,000. Thats the basic gist of a proposed airworthiness directive […]

If the world is full of opposites-and I think it is-the opposite of critical thought is group think or herd mentality. Group think is the tendency to go along with whatever new idea or trend comes along because, well, everyone else thinks its a good thing. Its just laziness by another name and were all […]

Rick Mathews, the president of AAP (Aviation Access Project) thinks that common sense is one of the key ingredients needed to reduce the 80 percent dropout rate in general aviation flight training. His goal is to reduce it to 25 percent or less while also doubling the pilot population to one million or more. Thats […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universitys testing of GAMIs G100UL unleaded fuel looks promising, the school told AVweb last week, and it says it sees no reason why the fuel cant be a drop-in replacement for 100LL. With two major flight training campuses, ERAU wants an unleaded replacement for avgas sooner rather than later and has been testing […]

A new report by marketsandmarkets.com says the aircraft refurbishing and repurposing market will grow to $4.3 billion in 2017, up from about $3 billion in 2012. The report ($4650 for a single download), which covers aircraft from business jets to heavy transport, looks at the existing opportunities and areas of future growth and covers opportunities […]

While old airframes may keep soldiering on, the instruments and radios in the panels usually don’t. At AirVenture this year, Electronics International rolled out a new instrument designed to replace older instruments, including tachometers, engines instruments, and other indicators. In this video, EI’s Tyler Speed gives us a quick product tour of the new CGR-30P. […]

ECi is using a new web page to highlight resistance to the FAA’s proposed Airworthiness Directive targeting TITAN brand 520/550 series cylinders produced between 2002 and 2009 that may cost $83 million in compliance-associated costs, but the resistance isn’t universal. The FAA wants to require initial and repetitive inspections of the cylinders, plus full replacements […]