by Isabel Goyer

Last night at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Reno, Nevada, Garmin shook up the avionics world with the introduction of two new panel-mount navigators, the huge Garmin 750 and the smaller but similarly capable Garmin 650. The two navigators are touch screen devices that do everything the GNS 430 and 530 do and more […]

On Monday FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt announced a plan to reduce general aviation accidents substantially and incrementally over the next 10 years with a 10 percent improvement as the target. At Sun ‘n Fun, the FAA will host the first of nearly 100 meetings across the country designed to let pilots and the FAA work […]

The FAA last week decided to grandfather in existing airport access to residents of hangar homes so long as the airport develops a security plan for that access. The policy on so-called “through-the-fence” agreements continues to oppose new access at airports that receive federal funds, though the agency takes no stance on airports that are […]

The Australian newspaper is reporting that a Dornier commuter plane was forced to return for a landing at Brisbane after the airplane’s flight instruments malfunctioned. The cause: green caterpillars were found to be clogging the pitot static system. There were no injuries. The Australian went on to report that when asked, a spokesman for the […]

(February 2011) — It has been seldom in the history of aviation that a single technology has revolutionized the way we fly by addressing multiple problems facing the industry and solving them all. The most important such event was the widescale adoption of the turbine engine in the 1940s. Turbines, as you know, remedied (and […]

When you’re flying into an airport where there’s a lot of jet traffic, controllers often ask you to keep things going fast. They might say, “best forward speed,” “maintain 160 knots,” or something to that effect, but the desired outcome is the same regardless of who you are: They want you in your piston airplane […]

When he arrived in 1970 for his new job at the Experimental Aviation Association in its then-home of Hales Corner, Wisconsin, Jack Cox surely had no idea what changes he’d see at the organization, watching it grow from a still-homey grassroots homebuilding enthusiast group with a big summer gathering to a world-class sport and personal […]

Diamond Aircraft has announced that it is developing a new engine in conjunction with Streyr, a longtime maker of diesel engines for the marine market. While the company released few details on the engine, it is known that it will be a 280 hp in-line six-cylinder diesel — Diamond apparently prefers the terms “jet fuel […]

“Select Com One,” I said into the mic, and waited half a second only to see the active light on the audio panel swap over to com one, as I’d requested. It’s a cool feature, but only a small part of why the new GMA 350 has set a new standard in GA audio panels. […]

AOPA recently released the findings of its extensive study of why the vast majority of student pilots never become full-fledged pilots. While the sheer futility of the numbers are alarming, the study is just the first step in finding ways for flight schools to develop programs designed to keep students from walking off the ramp […]