Stephen Pope

Piper announced at Aero Friedrichshafen in Germany this week that it will offer a diesel version of its PA-44 called the Seminole DX. It is the second Piper trainer to receive jet-A-burning diesel power after the Archer DX model emerged in 2014. The twin diesel Seminole DX will be powered by a new engine from […]

The days learning about flying from John and Martha King by watching VHS tapes are long gone, but after more than 40 years evolving their pilot courses, King Schools has said goodbye to physical media and is now delivering 100 percent of its pilot courses online. “We have followed two rules that have kept us […]

Many thousands of general aviation pilots are benefitting from the free in-cockpit weather information broadcast over the FIS-B link accessible by 978-MHz universal access transceivers – what most of us call ADS-B In. Now, a host of new weather products are coming to the service to provide pilots with even more information they can use […]

Levil Aviation’s Broadcasting Outer Module (BOM) officially went on sale this week at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida, bringing a unique sensor suite to a wide range of certified and non-certified light aircraft. The FAA last year approved the BOM avionics pod for installation on certified aircraft as a secondary source of flight data […]

Marking the company’s first foray into the market for experimental avionics, BendixKing this week introduced the xVue Touch primary flight display for kit-built aircraft. Billed as a low-cost alternative to traditional six-pack instruments, the new display features a vibrant near-4K-resolution display and is packed with technology borrowed from the certified market. BendixKing says the new […]

Textron Aviation is now offering a portable, carry-on head-up display from a Maryland company called Epic Optix for single-engine piston Cessna and Beechcraft models. Priced at $2,000, the product is being billed as the first ever full-color HUD for light general aviation airplanes. Textron Aviation is showcasing the Epic Eagle HUD in its Cessna 182 […]

The recent tax overhaul championed by President Donald Trump is being credited with helping the business aircraft manufacturing industry emerge from a decade-long slump. The new tax law allows 100 percent bonus depreciation for new and preowned aircraft and lowers corporate taxes and effective pass-through rates. The changes are helping the business aircraft industry “turn […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has been waging a very public battle for several months to reverse what it calls “egregious” overpricing by monopoly FBOs at certain federally funded airports. Now, critics are coming forward to explain why they say AOPA’s numbers are flat out wrong. So far AOPA has filed informal Part 13 […]

Startup avionics firm uAvionix introduced two new products to its expanding portfolio of low-cost and easy-to-install ADS-B solutions for general aviation airplanes. The first is a tail light replacement ADS-B Out unit similar in concept to the SkyBeacon red LED navlight replacement the company unveiled last year. The second is a green navlight replacement ADS-B […]

When Garmin and Dynon Avionics in 2016 received FAA approval to sell non-TSO’d electronic flight instruments to owners of Part 23 certified airplanes, Aspen Avionics – already a company known for producing low-cost avionics – grappled with how to respond. Now we have the answer in the form of Aspen’s new Evolution E5 flight instrument, […]