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Sandel Avionics, a niche player best known for its TAWS units and other specialized cockpit instrumentation, plans to take on the likes of Garmin, Collins and Honeywell with what it describes as the most advanced and sophisticated glass cockpit yet. At the NBAA convention in Las Vegas Monday, Sandel’s Gerry Block unveiled the new Avilon […]

Nextant is following up its success with the 400 XTi Beechjet remanufacture with a new project to redo the popular King Air C90. Prior to the NBAA show in Las Vegas, AVweb visited Nextant’s Cleveland headquarters for an overview. view on YouTube

The glass in your bird is looking a little milky, there’s some crazing on the windshield and a little crack where the pebble hit. Is it time to replace the windows? How can you tell? What’s it going to cost? How can I make the glass last longer? First, it’s worth noting that what’s on […]

Nextant Aerospace in Cleveland, Ohio has had great success remanufacturing Beechjet 400As. AVweb recently visited their shops and prepared this video. view on YouTube

What if you’ve got visible metal bits in your oil? Since source identification is critical, the first question is what kind of metal is it that you’re looking at? There are two sources of filtration; one the suction screen, which has bigger screen holes to stop big parts from being passed to the oil pump […]

People who sell things for a living—airplanes, cars, construction equipment, you name it—know that there’s a fine art to convincing a would-be buyer that a used thing is almost always a better value than a new thing. (Car dealers get this because they typically make more margin on used cars than on new.) Airplane buyers, […]

Now that Avidyne’s IFD440 hybrid touch GPS navigator is certified and shipping, the company is putting a sharp focus on the experimental and kit aircraft market. This includes builders with existing Garmin GNS navigators. In this video, Kitplanes magazine contributing editor Larry Anglisano, along with Avidyne’s Tom Harper, shows how to transition from an existing […]

It’s a sad law of aviation that while we like to think of pilots as honest, upstanding citizens, when it comes to selling airplanes, an unpleasantly high proportion suddenly turn into snake-oil salesmen. I’ve seen way too many airplane-shaped piles of junk marketed by pilots piously claiming they are in perfect shape. Sadly, some of […]

Editor’s note: We wish to thank the folks at LP Aero Plastics, www.lpaeroplastics.com, phone (800) 957-2376 for much of the following information and recommendations on how to properly care for your aircraft windows. They have been around for many years and we suggest if you have any acrylic needs that you check them out. That […]

I’m pretty sure Florida pilots have a slightly different relationship with thunderstorms than do pilots in other regions. We get so many of them, especially between March and December, that they often don’t impact flying much. Last week, Sarasota Avionic’s Dan Gulandri and I launched in his Bonanza with the western horizon black and threatening. […]