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When trying to come up with a site for floatplane heaven, you’d go through a lot of places before you hit upon Texas, but this didn’t stop me from saying “yes” when Cessna’s chief pilot of propeller airplanes, Kirby Ortega, dropped me a note asking if I wanted to go float flying with Cessna’s resident […]

From paper charts to satellites in space, Flying’s Top 50 Navigation Innovations counts down to the single most noteworthy navigation innovation of all time.

Novaer Craft has announced the development of two new carbon-fiber airplanes, the T-Xc Pilgrim and the U-Xc Stardream. The projects are already under way and, should they succeed, the company hopes to have Brazilian certification in 2015, followed by EASA and FAA certification, said Heitor Serra, Novaer’s director of operations, at a news conference at […]

As much as we’d all like to think we are IFR super-pilots, every pilot has a limit in any airplane. No matter how good an IFR pilot you are, if you don’t manage things right, you can get to the point where you are lagging far behind the airplane. Here are two simple rules to […]

Daher-Socata has unveiled the 2013 version of the TBM 850 Elite featuring an all-glass avionics panel. The L-3 Avionics Trilogy ESI-2000 solid-state electronic standby instrument will now provide backup flight information for the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system that graces the TBM 850 cockpit. The ESI-2000’s 3.7-inch liquid crystal display replaces the three traditional round-gauge […]

As we approach the anniversary of the Beechcraft Baron’s first flight, we take a look back at the twin-engine piston aircraft over the years.

Astronics Max-Viz infrared enhanced vision systems are now available for Cessna 172, 182 and 206 piston singles. Priced at just over $30,000 for a retrofit system ($22,145 as an option on a new aircraft), the system includes a wing-mounted infrared camera feeding a full- or split-screen black-and-white depiction on the Garmin G1000 multifunction display. The […]

We all remember the tedious work of the manual flight planning required for the Private Pilot certificate, where we spent hours calculating headwind components, ground speeds and, ultimately, the fuel required for the trip. Advanced avionics have made the task of knowing whether you have enough fuel as complicated as entering the fuel remaining and […]

Tamarack Aerospace, which last fall introduced its “active winglet” technology, has received an order for three shipsets of the winglets from Premier Jet Aviation in Florida. Premier plans to incorporate the winglets in its “CJ Plus” retrofit of Cessna Citation CJ (Model 525) series jets. The Tamarack winglets are expected to be certified for the […]

The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) has partnered with AOPA to provide flight training at the annual AOPA Aviation Summit, which kicks off next week in Palm Springs, California. SAFE’s Pilot Proficiency Program, which was first offered at EAA AirVenture this summer, offers free flight training using Redbird’s FMX flight simulator, a full-motion […]