Pilot Supplies

Honeywell is partnering with OneWeb, a startup satellite company founded by a group of former Google execs and backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Qualcomm, to bring broadband Internet service to aircraft anywhere in the world — and maybe even the airplane you fly. Planned to make its commercial debut about four years from […]

Abingdon Co. officially unveiled its latest women’s watch, Katherine, last week at the Women in Aviation Conference in Dallas, Texas. The new watch has a patent-pending feature that is sure to delight women pilots and is likely to intrigue some male pilots, too. The company’s founder, Chelsea “Abingdon” Welch, said that with all the new […]

With the Helicopter Association International’s annual conference underway this week in Orlando, Florida, Garmin took the opportunity to announce the addition of helicopter charts to its Garmin Pilot aviation app for iOS platforms. The app now includes helicopter route charts for the Gulf of Mexico and in eight U.S. metropolitan areas: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort […]

Jeppesen announced today that it is adding new capabilities to its Mobile FliteDeck VFR app for the iPad. The upgrades are designed to help pilots with their route planning and decision making during the preflight and while in flight. The most prominent new feature of the Mobile FliteDeck VFR 2.0 version is the graphical weather […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]