Face it. The big bore, high compression engines of today are handicapped by the simple fact that they cannot adjust their ignition timing for varying flight conditions. Magnetos just don’t do it. And because of that, our piston engines don’t always develop power efficiently. An electronic engine ignition system can, as we all know, but [...]
Did you ever wish your iPad could interface with your radio stack, or, better yet, the Primary Flight Display (PFD) in your aircraft instrument panel? The engineers at Aspen Avionics know how you feel. Better yet, they’re making it happen. With launch partners ForeFlight, Honeywell, Jeppesen, PS Engineering, Sporty’s Pilot Shops, Seattle Avionics and a [...]
With more and more homebuilders choosing their avionics packages later and later in the building process in an effort to stave off the “obsolescence” factor, there is a need for a device that can allow a 12 volt power system (installed by a builder thinking economically, perhaps) to be stepped up and made capable of [...]
For the Experimental aircraft builder/pilot who has completed a project and is now in the flight-test phase, there is nothing more valuable than performance data–all kinds of performance data. Yet nothing is more challenging in the aircraft during test flying than recording it. The NFlightcam, a 4.3 ounce lipstick-style 1080p high definition wide angle (135°) [...]
Every Experimental aircraft comes with a set of specific operating limitations. They are issued by the Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR) when the aircraft is certified for flight. Operating limitations define how you can operate your airplane. In the operating limits it should state what you need to do if you need to make a major [...]
Belite Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas, announced the development of a 6 gram digital chip and probe combination sensor designed to detect liquid water in an aircraft fuel system. Jim Wiebe, president and CEO of Belite Aircraft, introduced the product at Sun n Fun 2011. The circuit chip, with a tiny probe attached, is poised to [...]
Sun n Fun 2011 was a big stop on Sporty’s Pilot Shop’s 50th Anniversary tour. To celebrate, the company announced a new, no-cost service for aircraft owners called Sporty’s Plane Manager. The cloud-based program makes it simple for partnership-owned aircraft to be managed online. The program includes a scheduler, maintenance calendar and an area to [...]
April 1, 2011, dawned clear and cool on the Lakeland Linder Airport, but for a few pilots and vendors, it had probably been a sleepless night, as they wondered what to do next after a series of nasty microbursts destroyed or severely damaged their aircraft the day before. But the nice thing about the aviation [...]
