New Pilot Gear
If you’re considering a gift for your favorite pilot, copilot, or maybe just for yourself, anyone who loves to fly always appreciates new flying toys.
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Author: Bob Hart
What’s Going on at Aspen
As other manufacturers were introducing new solid-state options, Aspen was already there and upgrading theirs.
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Partial Panel: Flying With an In-Flight Loss of Instruments
Imagine you’re cruising along at night,VFR, with the family in your plane at 5,000 feet. Suddenly, you hear a pop, smell a little smoke, and everything in your panel goes dark.
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Cessna Avionics: Digital Autopilots 5 Years Later
Bendix King AeroCruze 100. Bendix King AeroCruze 230. The summer of 2017 brought what I described...
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Tablet Talk: Smart Tablets in the Cockpit
There was a day when, if you wanted to augment your certified navigation equipment and add a moving map to the panel, your option was a portable GPS.
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R.C. Allen’s New MINI6 Digital Instrument Combines Six Functions Into 3 Inches
Up until recently, pilots kept their wings level and on course using vacuum-driven mechanical gyros. The mechanical attitude indicator (AI) and directional gyro (DG) have been with us for many years.
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Stack and Its Harnesses
When anticipating an avionics upgrade, especially a whole-panel upgrade, we tend to put a lot of thought into the equipment, with consideration for how we plan to fly, our budget, and what equipment is best for our mission.
Read MoreExpert Tips for Managing Your Avionics Upgrade
No matter your motive for upgrading your panel, it makes sense to do it right and to know what the aircraft will be worth when it comes time to sell. Remember, you’re putting hours on the engine, which, frankly, has the greatest effect on aircraft values (that and damage history). You also need to know who you are and where you are going.
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The Used Avionics Market in 2022
What is worth the investment? It often depends on what will be repairable in the future I got into...
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ADS-B in Canada … And What the U.S. Could Have Learned
If you have ever attended a hockey or baseball game with a Canadian team competing, you have heard...
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Evolution of the Cessna Avionics Panel: 2021 Version
Photo by History in HD on Unsplash It was 1903 when Wilbur and Orville made the first powered...
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uAvionix Review: Avionics Consultant Discusses All uAvionix Products
Last month, we talked about the direction that Canada was going with its ADS-B mandate. For a...
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Best ANR Headsets: What to Use in Your Cessna
In February 2021, I talked about “Music in the Cockpit” and how to add it if you are not taking...
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Owner Maintenance: Make avionics part of your annual
Cessna in annual.Courtesy of Century Aviation This article brings me full circle. In March of...
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Music in the Cockpit
I have previously written about avionics tools that can ease pilot load. Obviously, GPS and...
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Engine Management: Solutions for IFR Pilots
Cessna with JP Instruments EDM 930. Photo courtesy of Cincinnati Avionics Last month we discussed...
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Engine Analyzers: Basic tools for VFR and light IFR
Cessna 206 with a JP Instruments EDM 830 installed in the panel. Photo courtesy of Plane Sales USA...
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Installation Labor: How to ensure you get a fair price
If you follow my articles, you know that I am one of the few avionics writers who talks about...
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Avionics Accessories: Extras to fill your panel slots
iPAD Mount Courtesy of iPAD News You would be surprised how many times I have had a client ask me...
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Old Stuff: Gyros, autopilots, and more
We have previously discussed the latest in EFIS technology. No question, this is amazing stuff....
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