Instruments

A new portable device from Radiant Technology moves between aircraft and requires no installation.

FARs reference to ‘only when empty’ is just a tale handed down through the decades.

Owners can enable its flight display series as a replacement in the panel.

Autopilot and magnetometer capabilities aim to lighten workload for pilots of experimental aircraft.

Genesys Aerosystems is developing new functionality for its HeliSAS autopilot series, as well as announcing the new Genesys Control Panel (GCP) audio panel for its line of digital radios. The update to the HeliSAS adds the fourth axis to the autopilot, which enables hover and hold regimes and collective control. With the update, pilots can […]

As pilots, we try not to draw too many parallels between driving a car and flying an airplane, because they don’t have much in common aside from moving your body quickly through space. One place this really rings true sits in front of you when you get into the cockpit: the instrument panel. It’s the […]

In December 2019, a Canadian-registry Piper Aerostar 602P with three aboard left Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico, to return home to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The group stopped overnight at Chino, California, east of Los Angeles—perhaps to visit the aviation museum there—and continued the next day to Nanaimo with a […]

The FAA this week approved the uAvionix AV-20-S multi-function display as an advanced time-keeping device equivalent and hence a replacement for the sweep-second-hand clocks of old. The unit is considered a replacement for clocks in Part 23, Class I and II IFR aircraft per advisory circular AC 20-94A. The new AV-20-S meets the requirements of Part 91.205 (d)(6). The Non-Required Safety […]

If you’re in love with the look of the traditional six-pack in your airplane—or don’t want to spend the cash on a new instrument panel—but want to incorporate the latest in glass multifunction capability into your cockpit, a new solution just dropped that answers that desire. Garmin has debuted on January 15, 2020, an electronic […]

If you’re growing tired of notoriously unreliable vacuum-driven and gyroscopic instruments, here’s a new option that will easily slot right into your panel. Garmin has obtained FAA approval for its G5 electronic flight display, originally developed for the Experimental market, through an STC covering 562 Part 23-certified aircraft models. The 3.5-inch unit is approved for […]