Aviation News

Air Fare America, a new aviation-themed reality TV show coming to a cable network near you, is at the Flying Aviation Expo asking showgoers the all-important question, “Where do you fly for food and fun?” This weekend, clearly, the answer is Palm Springs, California, the site of the inaugural Flying Aviation Expo, where thousands of […]

Fly This Sim (FTS) has added new capabilities to its home- and flight school-based TouchTrainer simulator systems, the company announced at Flying Aviation Expo. The touch screen enabled simulators can now add what the company calls VisX, which provides nearly a 180-degree view of the flight environment. The VisX visuals are displayed on three screens […]

Angel Flight West has introduced a new fundraising campaign to help fund its efforts to transport needy patients around the country. Starting on Monday November 3, you can donate to the company’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign at indiegogo.com. The campaign will run for four weeks and Angel Flight West hopes to raise $50,000 to aid in […]

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane suffered a “serious anomaly” over the California desert on Friday morning, breaking up and crashing. One pilot died and one was seriously injured. The reported problem came after SpaceShipTwo fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time in more than nine months. Two pilots fly in SpaceShipTwo’s cockpit […]

Industry leaders took center stage at the inaugural Flying Aviation Expo on Friday morning to discuss the effects of “disruptive technologies” in flying and how they have shaped today’s general aviation landscape. Jim Alpiser, Garmin’s director of aftermarket sales, Jerry Gregoire, founder of Redbird Flight Simulations, Tyson Weihs, ForeFlight co-founder and CEO, and Dan Johnson, […]

If you want to make the most out of your iPad or other portable tablet when you’re flying, there are many opportunities to learn about how to do so at the Flying Aviation Expo this weekend in sunny Palm Springs, California. You may have missed iPad in the Cockpit 101 this afternoon, but you will […]

Garmin is using the stage at the Flying Aviation Expo in Palm Springs, California, to provide additional details about its latest ADS-B product, designed to meet the FAA’s 2020 equipment mandate for ADS-B Out while also displaying free weather and traffic wirelessly on iPads and other tablets. The newly announced GDL 84 system includes a […]

Aviation software producer ForeFlight announced at the Flying Aviation Expo in Palm Springs, California, that it is in the final Apple review phase for its latest software update, which will bring additional capabilities to the already feature-packed software. ForeFlight Version 6.4 will introduce performance preflight planning capabilities, allowing the user to estimate taxi and takeoff, […]

The Piper Seminole is the latest to achieve type certificate change approval from the FAA to integrate the Garmin GFC 700 autopilot in the Garmin G1000-equipped piston-powered aircraft. With an Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS)-based automatic flight control system that provides flight director, autopilot, yaw damper, automatic and manual electric trim capabilities, the GFC […]

A Beechcraft King Air crashed into the FlightSafety Citation Learning Center at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport this morning, killing four people inside the building and injuring at least five others. The pilot of the King Air, who was the only person onboard, reported losing the left engine shortly after takeoff and radioed that he was returning […]