At AOPA Summit in Hartford, Garmin will unveil its latest portable, the touchscreen aera 796. Take a video tour of the navigator’s features, which include synthetic vision, enhanced chart functions, and a new touchscreen interface.
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 [...]
The Aircraft Electronics Association has just released the 2011-12 edition of its Pilot’s Guide to Avionics. This is the association’s ninth annual consumer’s directory of the avionics. It features buyer’s guides, educational articles and up-to-date information about the avionics industry, and its products and people. It also includes a directory of AEA member certified repair [...]
Dynon Avionics has introduced Version 3.1 firmware for the SkyView Integrated Glass Panel system. This update adds a flight planning menu along with controls so that pilots can now create, then fly multileg flight plans which can include autopilot input commands. Version 3.1 enables pilots to enter flight plans with multiple waypoints right on their [...]
Builders who have wired their own airplanes know that you can’t always use factory color-coded wire. And yet there are times when it would be handy to mark part of the wire run for later identification. That’s where the new Bogert Wire Marking Tool comes in. According to the company, this a non-conductive nylon tool [...]
Advanced Flight Systems’ Rob Hickman details the company’s new 5000-series big screen EFIS at Oshkosh 2010.
The 2010-2011 edition of the Aircraft Electronic Association Pilots Guide to Avionics will be available during AirVenture, Booth 2035/36 in Hangar B. This year also marks the debut of the Pilots Guide to Avionics web site, where visitors will find an avionics glossary, repair station directory by state and country, archives of past articles and [...]
Sandia Aerospace announced a new Mode C transponder with built-in encoder. The lightweight STX 165 has a one-half 3ATI front bezel and measures 7 inches depth behind the panel. The small size allows the STX 165 to be mounted outside of the center stack, making that space available for other avionics. In addition to displaying [...]
