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Hands down, the most buzz-worthy new product introduced on the opening day of Sun ‘n Fun was Sporty’s Stratus wireless weather receiver for the iPad. Designed to overlay color weather graphics and more on the ForeFlight Mobile app, the $799 receiver combines ADS-B and GPS receivers into a single unit that wirelessly streams Nexrad radar […]

Using ForeFlight Mobile to file the flight plan, monitor the weather and get airport information, Editor-in-Chief Robert Goyer flew out to ForeFlight’s headquarters in Houston last week to hand over the 2011 Editors’ Choice Award to ForeFlight for its popular ForeFlight Mobile aviation app. Accepting in person for ForeFlight was co-founder and managing director Tyson […]

Here are the five products that topped our list in 2011.

• Garmin VIRB Action Camera (February 2015) _ Joel Jungemann, Alaska_ • Garmin VIRB Action Camera and D2 Pilot Watch (September 2014) Darin Scheer, Wyoming • “Aircraft: The Definitive Visual History” Book (April 2013) Erik Heggland, Idaho Jason Shumway, California • Top Gun Blu-ray DVD (February 2013) Donald Bowsher, Nevada John Rose, Connecticut Stan Greenspan, […]

The dismal economy has been no help to the average aircraft upgrade budget. If you’ve recently solicited proposals for an ultra-modern avionics retrofit, you may have discovered the soup-to-nuts avionics upgrade you lust for probably isn’t affordable. Moreover, sinking half or more of the aircraft’s value into the panel pushes the boundaries of smart economics. Even the most modest of modern avionics upgrades could put the aircraft upside down financially. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t upgrade at all. In many cases, a budget that can’t afford the latest and greatest gear has the owner sitting on his hands. This leads to neglected panels while safety and utility hang in the balance.

You might have heard by now that the FAA’s AeroNav division, in charge of, among other things, keeping track of all the data that defines our National Airspace System, has decided to start charging for that online data, which it formerly gave away. The FAA has not released the details of that plan to the […]

The release by Apple of a new operating system for the iPad, iOS 5, has raised concerns among aviation app providers that pilots’ iPads might lose charts or even entire applications without the user’s knowledge. The issue has to do with Apple’s decision to let the new operating system delete files at its discretion if […]

(October 2011) If you’ve ever wished you could create a flight plan on your iPad and then somehow automatically beam it to the avionics in your airplane, you’re in luck. Aspen Avionics has introduced a Wi-Fi-based technology called Connected Panel that will let pilots do just that — and a whole lot more. The first […]

One iPad app we’ve written about in brief and liked in abundance is Hilton Software’s WingX Pro, designed by eponymous software maven Hilton Goldstein. Like its competitors, WingX Pro is a nav/charting/planning/database/safety utility app that seemingly does all things for all pilots for the slim price of $100 a year. New to the app is […]

There’s no question, using an iPad in the cockpit in place of paper charts and approach plates is better in almost every conceivable way – especially after the flight, when it’s time for chart updates, which with most popular apps from companies like Jeppesen or ForeFlight can be accomplished with just a couple of button […]