Stephen Pope

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has partnered with the IMC Club to host a series of instrument proficiency forums this week at EAA AirVenture. The Oshkosh forums will focus on improving instrument proficiency through discussions centered on the experiences that pilots may encounter in instrument flight. Each seminar will be introduced by the NTSB’s […]

Looking ahead at the future of rotorcraft design, Eurocopter has launched two concurrent research and development programs that are aimed at producing the company’s next generation of civil and military helicopters. To say these designs are extreme in appearance and operation is an understatement. Quite simply, nothing like the Eurocopter X3 and X4 has ever […]

ForeFlight, maker of the popular iPad electronic chart app, announced it has earned certification as an FAA Qualified Internet Communication Provider (QICP). The qualification allows private and commercial flight operations to use ForeFlight as their official source for weather information. A small number of companies – including Jeppesen, WSI, XM WX, Universal Weather and a […]

With the start of the Oshkosh airshow just days away, aviation fanatics far and wide are making last-minute preparations for all they’ll do and see once the doors to EAA AirVenture 2012 swing open on Monday, July 23. This year’s show looks set to be good one – although it will be hot, with temperatures […]

We all know that a very small temperature/dewpoint spread creates the perfect conditions for low visibility. But did you also know that a very high temperature/dewpoint spread associated with convective activity can be an indication of an imminent danger to light airplanes? When the spread between the air temperature and dewpoint is between 15 and […]

Milan, Italy-based PAT Avionics plans to unveil a head-up display for experimental aircraft that clips to the glareshield in the pilot’s forward field of vision, providing flight-related information on an innovative see-through screen. The company says its new G-HULP HUD is the first product of its kind, allowing pilots to monitor airspeed, altitude and course […]

You’ve torn open the packaging and pulled out your shiny new Apple iPad (or maybe it is an Android tablet). Powering the unit on for the first time, the image on the screen is just as stunningly rendered as you imagined. You stare into the glow of the capacitive LCD touchscreen and eagerly navigate to […]

Boeing stopped performing airshow flight demonstrations 28 years ago, citing the safety risks involved in putting an airliner through maneuvers better suited to fighters and aerobatic airplanes. That all changed this week at the Farnborough International Airshow in England with impressive routines by the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that showed off the advanced jet’s capabilities to […]

Garmin has unveiled a new portable Bluetooth satnav receiver for iPads and Android tablets that ingeniously combines a regular GPS receiver and a Russian Glonass receiver into a single wireless unit that is more accurate and can find itself more quickly than products that use GPS alone. The new receiver, called GLO, wirelessly connects to […]

A couple week’s ago I spelled out the reasons why I thought China would probably buy the assets of bankrupt Hawker Beechcraft, and why I also thought it would be a smart move. Now, in the wake of the announcement that a Chinese firm is indeed pulling the trigger on the deal, potentially worth a […]