avionics

L-3 Aviation Products is offering early details of a new family of ADS-B offerings that promise to provide a low-cost compliance path for the FAA’s upcoming equipment mandate, as well as a long list of optional additional features to fit a variety of wants and budgets. Lynx is described by L-3 as a single-box solution […]

Flying Magazine was among the first to try out the new Safe Flight SCx angle-of-attack indicator designed for the kit-built and experimental markets, putting the unit to the test in the company’s Cessna 172 right before Oshkosh. After our demo the only thing we disliked like about the system is that it’s not available for […]

On Monday at AirVenture 2014 BendixKing announced a new flat-panel retrofit avionics solution, AeroVue, for owners of turbine aircraft that are still of great value but that have outdated avionics. The system, BendixKing president Kevin Gould told Flying, would cost around $100,000 less than the competition, which presumably is the Garmin G1000 retrofit system. AeroVue […]

The engineers at Garmin’s Team X have come up with yet another product to benefit pilots of amateur-built and light sport aircraft. Just a few months after the Olathe, Kansas-based company launched the G3X Touch, a smaller version of the system has been released. The new G3X Touch has a 7-inch screen, providing an option […]

Garmin is making flight planning a whole lot easier with a new family of wireless gateway products that permit users to send their flight planned route from an iPad or Android tablet straight into the panel-mounted avionics in the cockpit. Part of the Garmin Connext product line, the Flight Stream 210 wireless gateway uses Bluetooth […]

You may have noticed, if you follow the press releases, a sudden multiplication of angle of attack indicators for smaller general aviation aircraft. This burst of activity is due to a new FAA policy allowing AOA instrumentation to be installed in certified airplanes without a burdensome STC process, as long as it is independent of […]

SocialFlight has expanded its database of features beyond just aviation events. Through the free mobile app and web-based service you can now get access to more information and also connect with aviation friends and businesses. Adding to the database of more than 15,000 aviation events, such as fly-ins, airshows, conventions, seminars and more, new features […]

The Garmin Pilot app for the iPad and iPhone now offers global coverage, providing users with worldwide charts and maps, weather information and flight plan capabilities. Garmin said it has also added radar and satellite imagery coverage for Western Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S. along with European VFR charts from Deutsche Flugicherung (DFS) and […]

It might be a Madison Avenue cliché, but the notion that “new and improved” sells is certainly in aviation, whether you’re talking about big airplanes or small ones. Buyers want more of everything, speed, range, payload, safety, comfort and efficiency, and if airplane builders can deliver on those commodities, they will sell airplanes, sometimes a […]

Aviation is still so young that a 100-year anniversary for any aviation entity is a rare thing indeed, but this year industry leader Honeywell is celebrating 100 years at making aviation better in every conceivable way. As those of you who have been around airplanes for a while (like me) know, today’s Honeywell is made […]