avionics

If you’re in love with the look of the traditional six-pack in your airplane—or don’t want to spend the cash on a new instrument panel—but want to incorporate the latest in glass multifunction capability into your cockpit, a new solution just dropped that answers that desire. Garmin has debuted on January 15, 2020, an electronic […]

When Garmin launched the first of its aftermarket touchscreen navigators in 2011, Flying noted that the most remarkable thing about the new multifunction units was not the touchscreen itself, but the enabling power behind it. In the initial versions, this involved losing the keypad and finding in its place what many pilots considered to be […]

As we turned over the calendar on 2020, the era of required ADS-B equipage in the United States began—with certain exceptions. To this end, the FAA released its advisory circular, AC 90-114B, “Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Operations,” on December 30, to provide guidance for those pilots flying under Part 91. Specifically, the AC expands upon the […]

FLYING takes a behind-the-scenes look at the ideas and analysis that went into the development of this innovative addition to aviation safety.

The Aircraft Electronics Association has released its third-quarter report for 2019, and the association reports a nearly 15% increase over third-quarter 2018 figures for the retrofit and forward-fit avionics market for business and general aviation, and a 14.3% increase over the year-to-date figures from 2018. The participating companies reported more than $2.2 billion in combined […]

Garmin has secured FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) approval for its GFC 500 autopilot, with the retrofit now available for installation on Piper PA-28-201T and -236, and PA-32-260 and -300 models. The GFC 500 was purpose-built for single-engine, piston airplanes, and specifically targets those models that have antiquated original autopilots and can benefit from the […]

In January of 2019, NAV CANADA announced it will be implementing an ADS-B performance requirements mandate in three phases that will affect U.S. aircraft headed north. Only the third and final implementation phase, due for activation by 2023 will actually impact U.S. GA aircraft. Because NAV CANADA uses Aireon’s space-based ADS-B signals to provide much […]

Instrument flying changed forever yesterday when Vū Systems launched the world’s first passive millimeter wave sensor (PMMS) for aviation called the Vu Cube. At first glance, the 29-pound sensor looks like a retro black-and-white TV from the 1950s, but the sensor’s ability to see through heavy clouds, thick fog and even snow make it far […]

Each aviation generation sees a handful of revolutionary concepts, those leading-edge technologies that, once introduced to the airplane—because they are so game-changing—undergo a transition period before we fully understand the increase in safety that they can provide. Garmin announced today its entry into that rarefied space: the first Autoland system developed exclusively for use in […]

Thales and StandardAero announced at the National Business Aviation Association’s 2019 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Las Vegas this week that the Bombardier Challenger 350 will be the first airframe to be certified for TopMax, Thales’ new Wearable head-up display. TopMax is an industry first, resulting from Thales’ decades-long experience in military helmet […]