avionics

Building your own airplane can be a daunting task and one of the trickiest parts is to properly assemble the avionics equipment and all the cables that go with it. Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Company has just started a program that makes this work much easier. The company’s harness assembly shop offers services ranging from […]

Our friends over at PopSci recently demonstrated landing an airplane using an iPad in a simulated emergency. Using Xavion, the app monitors airspeed, altitude, position, heading and wing speed and steers aircraft to landing via Wi-Fi interface with airplane’s autopilot system. Watch the video and check out what they had to say about the innovative […]

ADS-B. It’s an acronym only an engineer’s mother could love. Three letters followed by a hyphen and another letter hanging off in la-la land. What does it stand for again? Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast. What in the world does that mean? Not only is ADS-B confusing, but it’s expensive too. When all is said and done […]

Synthetic vision is coming to ForeFlight Mobile, and from the early screenshots posted on the app maker’s website the upgrade looks like it will be well worth the extra $25 a year the upgrade will cost subscribers. The SVS update, set for release around the first of the year as part of ForeFlight Mobile Version […]

Today’s flight instructors are coming to terms with a new presence in the cockpit of their training aircraft: the Apple iPad. Students are bringing iPads with them to run one of a few apps that give them unprecedented situational awareness, a level of situational awareness, in fact, that makes old-school aviators wonder how in the […]

Garmin has started shipping its Flight Stream 110 and 210 Bluetooth wireless gateway units, allowing for connectivity in the cockpit through the company’s Connext system. The units allow information from panel-mounted avionics to be streamed to a portable tablet or smartphone through the Garmin Pilot app. The Flight Stream 110 connects with Garmin’s GDL 88 […]

The leading iOS app, ForeFlight, continues to get cool new features, and the latest ones up the ante considerably, making ForeFlight the most dynamic app available on any platform. In this case, “dynamic” means an app that is not only hard hitting but also constantly updating as you go. The first new feature, called Flight […]

Aviation has never been an industry to rest on its laurels, and the past year has been no different. Thanks to a slew of innovations within the past 12 months, today’s fliers now have more information at their fingertips, more capable gadgets and better aviation gear than ever. From headsets that take noise reduction to […]

Trig’s TT31 ADS-B-compatible Mode S transponder is now certified under a blanket STC covering 650 additional aircraft types, the U.K.-based avionics maker announced. Billed as a “plug and play” ADS-B Out transponder that’s compatible with the Garmin GNS 400W and 500W series navigators as a replacement for BendixKing KT76A and KT78A transponders, the TT31 is […]

With technology constantly changing, you may use aviation apps on several platforms, some of which change shape with each new release. Whether you want to bring an iPad, an iPad Mini, a Samsung Galaxy or a Kindle Fire into the cockpit, you may have found you need a separate mount for each platform. But MyGoFlight […]