Gadgets
Article: The Hot 10 Spring Roundup
Spring without the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo would be like Christmas without Santa, LSA without Rotax, GA without Cessna and Piper ...
Article: Adventure Pilot iFly 720
In October 2012, I updated you here on the latest enhancements for the revolutionary, portable, affordable ($750), iFly 720 moving-map GPS. ...
Article: The Way Of Active Winglets
Fortunately, airplanes don't deal much in real mousetraps, but every once in a while, someone comes along and invents a better one.
Article: Lightspeed FlightLink For Zulu.2
Connect a headset to your iPad?
Article: Dynon D1 Pocket Panel
Twenty-first-century private pilots benefit enormously from technologies like GPS, WAAS and iPads.
Article: iFly 720
Two years ago, I came across a new avionics company: Adventure Pilot.
Article: Flight Bag For All Needs
I must own seven or eight different flight bags.
Article: Sennheiser S1 Passive
I love passive headsets. Before our readers start scratching their heads wondering if I know about all the benefits of ANR (active noise reduction), I will assure you that I do.
Article: Cockpit Cameras
As pilots, we always want to tell everyone about our latest flying endeavors, whether it's a cross-country adventure or our best-ever landing. ...
Article: iFlightPlanner For iPad By Sennheiser
For some time now, iFlightPlanner.com has offered a web-based service combining flight-planning and logging features with a mobile version that's supported on many smartphones.
Article: Handheld Buyer’s Guide
Smarter, faster and ever smaller, handheld devices for aviation are undergoing a revolution that surpasses anything we've seen before.
Article: ADS-B Weather In The Cockpit
More than 15 years ago, I found a public-domain app for the late, lamented Palm VII (one of the first pocket-sized wireless digital gizmos) that would let me call up NEXRAD weather radar graphics.
Article: AvMap EKP-V
When we looked at AvMap's EKP-IV back in 2004, we described it as "the Rolls Royce of portable GPS units," with better features than the competition at a higher price. ...
Article: More Sun, More Fun!
Last year: tornados and wrecked airplanes. This year: sun. Way sun. What a glorious week. Temps in the '80s. Refreshing breezes everyday. Billowy cotton-ball clouds and only one minor afternoon thunderstorm.
Article: Aviation Apps
It's hard to believe that the iPad was introduced just in 2010. With an estimated 60 million iPads sold since Apple introduced it two years ago, no other device in history has influenced our world the way this clean little tablet computer has.
Article: Flight Guide iEFB For iPad Version 4.1
For no less than 50 years, pilots have relied on the Flight Guide Airport and Frequency Manual for airport information while flying cross-country. ...
Article: Headsets On Parade
It's ironic that even in a multimillion-dollar aircraft, the ultimate cockpit situational awareness comes through a pair of headsets that can be anything from an $80 pair of eBay budget buys to $1,100 ANR big-namers.
Article: Control Vision Anywhere Map Septa
I've been following Control Vision's Anywhere Map line of products for many years now, and the Septa addresses most of the issues with previous models. ...
Article: Field Of Electric Dreams
Orange plastic barrier fences and blue tent tops shiver in the light breeze.
Article: Telex Ascend
Among turbine pilots, Telex makes some of the most popular headsets in the world.
Article: Rugged Radios RA950
One market segment generally ignored in aviation-headset makers is the rough-and-tumble world of flight schools and industrial operations.
Article: Aspen Has Connections
It’s becoming an interactive world. Like many of you, I own an airplane that’s a legitimate antique but that will probably outlive me.
Article: Oshkosh 2011
Economies rise and fall like ocean waves. Headlines blare about this debt crisis and that stock market selloff, and through it all we keep on keeping on: That’s what humans do.
Article: ForeFlight Mobile Version 4.0
In the brief time since its introduction, the iPad has become a runaway hit among pilots.
Article: The Next Step In Glass Panels
Pilots who attended the 2011 Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Fla., were introduced to the newest generation of Garmin avionics installed in the Cessna Corvalis 400TTX. ...
Article: A New Era Dawns: Electric Flight
Fantasy time: A shadow flashes across you as you walk toward the airport cafe.
Article: 20 Great Aviation Apps
The iPad scene shifts faster than coastal weather, with new products and amazing updates from old friends.
Article: Garmin Introduces The Touch-Screen 650 And 750
I've been fortunate to have access to many of the avionics innovations introduced in the last 40 years. (function(){ var flashvars = {affiliateSiteId:"85996", widgetId:"108329", mediaType_mediaID:"video_1589425",...
Article: Great New Products!
In the middle of the best of Spring Break air show times it became, for a day, the very worst of times.
Article: Keeping It Real
I’m weaving my Bell Jet Ranger helicopter through the labyrinthine Hong Kong skyline.
