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With the 2020 mandate for ADS-B Out equipment for aircraft flying in controlled airspace rapidly approaching — and the FAA offering a $500 equipment rebate to the first 20,000 aircraft owners to get in line — now is a great time to commit to a unit to avoid the mad rush before the compliance deadline. […]

Cessna Aircraft today announced its selections for the 2017 Top Hawk program, a partnership that provides each chosen university with a new Skyhawk 172 to use in flight training, recruiting efforts and promotional activities. This year’s Top Hawk university partners are Eastern Kentucky, Ohio State, Auburn, Southern Illinois Carbondale and Louisiana Tech. “These universities are […]

The addition of Garmin G3000 touch-screen avionics and interior improvements took this turboprop to a different level when it debuted in 2016.

A few years back, my parents bought a beautiful tiled wood stove for their home. The first year, they bought a light truckload of wood. But Dad found buying wood to be a pricey way to feed the stove. Being retired with spare time on his hands and the desire for physical work, he decided […]

We took off from Camarillo under calm, clear blue skies. The hillsides along the coast of Southern California displayed a panoply of colors — bright-green grasses mixed with expansive patches of purple, yellow and orange flowers. The last time I was in Camarillo in a Lancair Evolution, the airplane had a big Pratt & Whitney […]

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First we got an e-mail from a reader concerned that Garmin was removing airports with runways under 4000 feet from their worldwide database. Next, a reader related a situation where hed been cleared direct to a fix that wasnt in his Garmin GNS 430, but it showed up when he loaded an RNAV arrival. These produced some internal discussions and one of our staff related a story from a friend of his whod busted a stepdown fix altitude because the stepdown fix wasnt depicted on the approach in his Bendix-King KLN-94.

Astronics Corp., a subsidiary of Astronics Max-Viz, this week announced its new X1+HR enhanced vision system (EVS) for homebuilt and experimental aircraft. Using a long-wave infrared thermal imager with electronic zoom, the X1+HR EVS weighs only 1.2 pounds and enables pilots to see temporary obstructions such as wildlife and construction barriers, which may not be […]

While an integrated system like the G1000 incorporates communication, navigation, engine information, an MFD and PFD, no such certified integrated system is commonly available for retrofit. So, one must look upon retrofit glass as containing at least two components-the navigator and the PFD. Most, however, also incorporate an MFD, making three separate devices you must learn.

One of the biggest complaints Mooney has heard from its thousands of M20 customers is the lack of a left-side door. While adding a second door to a decades-old design is no easy feat, the company listened to the feedback. In February, Mooney announced the M20V Acclaim Ultra, which has a new composite skin to […]