Gear

Without any hesitation, the aviation apps have started coming for the Apple iPad. Sporty’s Pilot Shop recently announced an E6B computer application compatible with the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and the large-screen iPad. The app costs $4.95 and is available at sportys.com.

Chevron-Texaco Aviation general manager Keith Sawyer said the company is changing its business model as relates to selling aviation fuel to the retail (general aviation) market. As of June 1, he said, “We are aligning our aviation marketing assets with our manufacturing system to focus on the areas where our supply reliability is the strongest.” […]

Full-time autothrottle system is the first available in a midsize business jet.

At Sun ‘n Fun, Garmin also announced it was bundling annual database updates for its 495/496- and 695/696-series portable GPS navigators. Buyers can now purchase packaged annual updates including Jeppesen NavData; Obstacles; Terrain; AOPA airport guide; FliteCharts; and SafeTaxi. The packages for the 695/696 cost $699, $499 without the NavData. European customers pay $399 for […]

Garmin broke the news just before Sun ‘n Fun. It was offering its dedicated synthetic vision technology (SVX) for its G300 (exclusive to the Cessna 162 SkyCatcher) and G3X avionics packages designed for Light Sport and Experimental category aircraft. SVX will be standard on all new G300 and G3X packages and will also be available […]

There’s an old joke about a down-and-out guy during the Depression hawking apples for $500 each. His response to the obvious question: “Yeah, but I only have to sell ONE.” Well, in the midst of the 21st century Great Recession, people lined up last weekend to buy Apple iPads at around that price, and this […]

Our crew began to assemble in the lobby of the Barcelona hotel. Outside on the street, pilots and flight attendants from the arriving flight collected their bags from behind the jitney bus that had driven them from the airport. They shuffled into the hotel. One of the arriving flight attendants murmured something about the electronic […]

Aspen Avionics has partnered with a pair of third-party shops to earn several supplemental type certificates for helicopter applications. Announced at Heli-Expo in Houston, the STCs include those for installing Aspen EFD1000H flight display systems in Bell 206 and 407 models. As with fixed-wing applications, the EFD1000H replaces the six fundamental mechanical flight instruments with […]

New avionics address helicopters’ highest risk operations.

An avionics software upgrade for the ages; and a pair of new-version piston twins made the list of Flying‘s Editors’ Choice Awards for 2009. Avidyne’s Entegra Release 9 upgrade is much more than a simple download. It’s a game-changing update that brings one of the original glass panel systems for light aircraft back to the […]