avionics

One of the top stories at NBAA this week was the emergence of not one but two new aviation cellular networks designed to grab a piece of the emerging market for cellular communications in high-end personal, business, commercial and governmental aircraft. At its turbine market forecast on Sunday, Honeywell welcomed partner company AT&T, which announced […]

Safe Flight Instrument Corp. has made a name for itself over the last seven decades by producing extremely simple and effective safety devices for aircraft. This week at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, the company unveiled two new products that absolutely fit the bill for this approach. Flying had the chance to check out […]

Eugene, Oregon-based Rosen Sunvisor Systems has introduced what the company calls the ARC Sunvisor Assembly system, which allows airplane and helicopter pilots to protect their vision from bright sunrays more easily. The visors have been redesigned with various shapes and tints, and the new system provides a lot more flexibility in movement than previous systems. […]

As Rockwell Collins integrates its Ascend flight information services program with newly acquired flight support giant Arinc, new flight planning tools have been added to simplify flight operations. With its new identity, Arinc Direct will focus on four pillars of service for flight department customer: international trip support, cabin connectivity, flight deck connection and flight […]

Beechcraft King Air pilots and operators now have an opportunity to upgrade their Garmin G1000 panels with new functions. King Air 200 and 300 series operators who have been craving G1000 upgrades such as Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT), Jeppesen’s ChartView charting system and Electronic Stability and Protection system (ESP), which helps the pilot maintain […]

The latest Honeywell business aviation forecast estimates modest growth in aircraft deliveries in the next decade as buyers slowly ramp up their purchasing expectations. The annual survey of worldwide operators foresees deliveries of as many as 9,450 new business jets valued at $280 billion between now and 2024, an increase of around 7 percent by […]

Pilots looking to get comfortable using the iPad in the cockpit as well as seasoned tech geeks seeking to put their iPad prowess to the test can do just that at the Flying Aviation Expo later this month, thanks to two seminars that will be held by pilot supplies company MyGoFlight. During the company’s “IPad […]

With the ADS-B mandate quickly approaching here in the United States, Garmin has come up with a new solution for a growing list of business jets that the company says will satisfy ADS-B requirements globally. Rather than having to install expensive upgrades to the flight management systems, operators will be able to install three Garmin […]

Light helicopter manufacturer Enstrom Helicopter announced the delivery of its first Enstrom 480B-G. The Garmin G1000H-equipped helicopter went to Rick Boswell of New Hampshire, who was greeted together with his instructor Roger Sharkey by a large group of employees at the Enstrom factory in Menominee, Michigan. “When I heard about the G1000H, I had to […]

Operators of Honeywell’s Primus Epic Integrated Navigation (INAV) and Primus Apex avionics systems can now forget about memory sticks and other hardware used to update their avionics databases as charting giant Jeppesen and Honeywell Aerospace have joined forces on a new database update program. The Integrated Navigation Data Service (INDS) Data Manager (IDM) for Windows […]