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Winging It
...assembly model. The anomalies turned out to be a pair of blade antennas for the microwave landing system (MLS), should an airline want to add that option. The antennas were...
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2026 Avionics and Lights Buyer’s Guide
...code, ensuring compatibility with most installations. Antenna requirements match industry standards—a 1090 MHz quarter-wave blade antenna mounted on the aircraft belly provides adequate signal strength. Microair also produces the M760...
Starlink In The Air
...by the airframe. The larger terminals require permanent mounting, typically on the aircraft’s upper fuselage. This involves structural analysis, antenna placement modeling, and often custom fabrication to create a mount...
Hearing Things
...listening throughout the flight. From engine noise, air noise, whistles, vibration, and frequency changes, you’ll fine-tune your trouble antenna. When you land, pay attention to brakes and tires and anything...
Eating the Elephant—Part 3
...yourself boxed into a corner. You can’t close out the floor until you run the wires for the antennas—but you can’t mount the antenna until you know if you’re going...
Putting Off the Tailwheel Spring Repair
...a tailwheel overhaul and some navel-gazing regarding the Omni antenna co-mounted with the tail spring, the costs are adding up. I’ve always tried to improve any part of the airplane...
The Iceman Cometh
...because of our low altitude or antenna ice or both, it was just static. I then glanced back at the instrument panel and noticed that we had dipped back below...
Dummy Loads
...belly antennas installed—but you just KNOW that you’re itching to hit that “push to talk” switch to make sure it works. You have also heard horror stories of blowing up...
Red, Round and Gorgeous
...antenna functioning. Left: What a pleasant place to fly the day away. Rick reports absolutely minimal wind bother behind either windshield. Right: A fiberglass headrest allows internal antennas along with...
Archive: May 2014
...own ground plane antenna for the hangar or radio shack. “This is by far the best ground plane aircraft band antenna I’ve ever seen. Perhaps the best ground plane antenna...
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Garmin GPSMap 696
Garmin has introduced at tablet-style portable that combines the best features of a panel-mounted multifunction display and a portable GPS. The screen real estate in itself is noteworthy, but the additional features are impressive; by Marc Cook.
