Gear

Kestrel Aircraft’s CEO and president Alan Klapmeier and the company’s COO and executive vice president of product development Steve Serfling provided an update to the media on the Kestrel single-engine turboprop project in a press conference at AirVenture. Klapmeier said he had hoped to be able to announce full funding for the Kestrel turboprop program […]

Lightspeed took the wraps off of its new Zulu PFX headset at AirVenture on Monday, unveiling what it claims is “the quietest aviation headset available.” The company says the PFX, which stands for “personal flying experience,” was developed over the course of two-plus years using a number of new features to improve noise cancellation and […]

At a news conference at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Jeppesen introduced several new aviation programs for the iPad. Responding to the popularity of Garmin’s G1000 integrated glass-panel avionics, which is now the standard package for most new training airplanes, Jeppesen has introduced a G1000 avionics training app. The G1000 avionics training covers VFR and IFR […]

Just a few months after Garmin introduced its G3X avionics system, the manufacturer has unveiled its newest product for the experimental and LSA markets: the GTR 200 comm radio. Designed by Team X — the Garmin group behind the new line of homebuilt avionics — the GTR 200 features a two-place auto-squelch stereo intercom, 3D […]

The twin-engine Seminole is the latest of Piper’s offerings to receive type certificate approval from the FAA for the integrated Garmin G1000 avionics system. G1000-equipped Seminoles are expected to start rolling out of the Vero Beach, Florida, factory next month, and Piper will have one on display at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, set for July […]

Users of aviation’s most popular flight planning and support app now have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the software through a new training course from Sporty’s. Sporty’s ForeFlight training program shows users how to use the app through step-by-step instructions that cover everything from how to download ForeFlight to how to […]

Challenger 300 and 350 operators will have new avionics capabilities available to them as Rockwell Collins has upgraded its Pro Line 21 system for these super-midsize jets. Bombardier calls the upgraded system Pro Line 21 Advanced. The new system will be included in all new Challenger 300s and Challenger 350s once they start to come […]

The aircraft owners who received free ADS-B avionics as part of the FAA’s Capstone Program in Alaska are about to get another freebie. The FAA has chosen ADS-B avionics from FreeFlight Systems for the 600 aircraft that originally took part in the Alaska Capstone Program to bring them into compliance with the Jan. 1, 2020, […]

Two of the most vexing problems in cockpit-mounted video cameras are prop blur and good audio reproduction. NFlightCam and Sporty’s have teamed to bring innovative, simple solutions to these and other dilemmas. A small company based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, NFlightCam is now staunchly committed to the iPhone/GoPro market. With Sporty’s as its distributor, NFlightCam offers […]

Avidyne and MIT researchers have been working for the past three years on improved ADS-B traffic alerting algorithms that the FAA hopes to use as the baseline standard for the entire avionics industry. Now the collaboration has led to the development of an Avidyne traffic alert feature called VeriTAS that has the goal of providing […]