avionics

SocialFlight has added a new feature called Burger Flight, which makes finding a terrific airport restaurant as easy as tapping on a screen. Burger Flight is included in SocialFlight’s free app, and it shows airport restaurants as burger symbols on the map. Thousands of airport restaurants are featured on the moving map. In addition to […]

Aspen Avionics is pursuing a strategy that is unusual in the avionics market: The company is offering owners of its older flight displays the opportunity to upgrade all the internal hardware to bring the displays up to the very latest in capability and reliability. Aspen’s Evolution Max display upgrade program launched in February allows current […]

uAvionix is taking its tailBeacon ADS-B Out solution to the next step announcing yesterday at Sun n’ Fun that the micro-electronics maker filed its TSO package for the device with the FAA Aircraft Certification Office (ACO). Like the earlier TSOed skyBeacon for wingtip installations, the tailBeacon requires very little effort to install, even less than […]

As BendixKing seeks to offer a full array of avionics products for the general aviation market, the company is turning to an untested growth strategy to allow it to better compete against the likes of Garmin and other heavy hitters in a crowded market. Rather than develop new avionics products on its own, BendixKing is […]

After Dynon introduced the SkyView HDX system, originally designed for the experimental market, to the Cessna 172 as an aftermarket STC, the company has made progress in expanding the STC for other Part 23 certified platforms. While the government shutdown slowed the progress, the company will soon be able to ship SkyView HDX systems to […]

Garmin announced at the Aircraft Electronics Association’s International Convention and Tradeshow, which is ongoing this week at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California, that it has achieved FAA certification for installations of its highly acclaimed G3X Touch system, originally designed for the experimental market, in Part 23 aircraft. The company also achieved […]

Aspen Avionics has received FAA approval for a software update to address an airworthiness directive the agency issued in February. The AD affects Aspen’s Evolution Flight Displays with software version 2.9 and is intended to prevent a possible inflight reset of FIS-B-equipped EFD1000-500 systems when they are connected to an ADS-B transponder and receive improperly […]

Humacao, Puerto Rico-based Red Cat has announced a new product designed to track drones and analyze their activities in an effort to help pilots ensure that a flight stayed within the regulations of drone operations. A black box of sorts, the Blockchain black box tracks and records drone flight data. Red Cat claims to be […]

The FAA has partnered with Kittyhawk, a provider of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) UAS service, to redevelop the B4UFLY app, which helps operators of UAS stay out of trouble in terms of where they can and can’t fly. Kittyhawk has offered to modify the app at no cost to the FAA. […]

If you’re someone who can’t keep straight the number and names of the dozens of urban flying vehicles coming to the marketplace, don’t feel alone. For an education on the urban mobility marketplace, EAA’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in late July, might be just the place when the doors open to the show’s new urban […]