Garmin Pilot app adds support to display Jeppesen terminal charts

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Garmin announced the integration of geo-referenced Jeppesen terminal charts within the Garmin Pilot app on Apple mobile devices1. Jeppesen charts can be viewed within Garmin...

Paulo Iscold Receives August Raspet Memorial Award

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Paulo Iscold, 40, has been announced as the 2016 winner of the EAA's prestigious August Raspet Memorial Award, which recognizes an individual or group that has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of light aircraft design. Notable past recipients include Dick VanGrunsven, Burt Rutan and Paul Poberezny.

Garmin introduces new ways to interact with GTN 650/750

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Garmin announced an expanded feature set, an enhanced user interface and additional wireless connectivity solutions for its popular GTN 650/750 touchscreen navigators. New GTN...

Garmin® revolutionizes database management with wireless Database Concierge

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Garmin announced an expanded Connext portfolio of connectivity solutions with the Flight Stream 510 MultiMediaCard (MMC), enabling wireless aviation database transfer capabilities between the Garmin Pilot™...

And Out They Come

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Drilling out rivets can seem like a step backwards for any builder, but you can also look at it from another direction and realize that if you need to do it, you NEED to do it--and therefore, it is a step forward towards completion, or in this case, in the direction of finishing a repair.

New Garmin navigation databases bring cost-effective solutions to the cockpit

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Garmin announced a new, cost-effective Garmin Navigation Database, single navigator bundles and all-inclusive OnePak database options for select Garmin avionics and portables. OnePak database...

ADSB-Out–Two of Four Complete

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Trying to keep number of family airplanes flying and up to date is never easy, and since one or two fly a couple of...

Sonex Provides Kit Hardware with WBParts

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Sonex Aircraft announced a new relationship with aircraft hardware distributor WBParts to provide the company's SmartKits hardware packages with Sonex Aircraft airframe kits. WBParts...

Ninety Knots

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My AirVenture NOTAM booklet came fairly late this year, despite having ordered it the day it was available. Not to worry--I downloaded the document...

Jon Croke's Zenith CH750 Cruzer

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My new Zenith CH750 Cruzer is powered by a rebuilt Continental O-200 engine driving a WhirlWind propeller. From start to finish the kit took...

In Case You Missed It

A SubSonex personal jet in aerobatic flight. Thea design will expand with a two-place model kit in the months ahead. [Credit: Sonex Aircraft]

Sonex Reopens

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On the last Friday in March, Mark Schaible sat down in front of a...

Firewall Forward: Engine Instruments

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How to sort through the maze of instrumentation choices.

Safety Is No Accident: Van’s RV series

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It’s been a couple of years since we looked at how homebuilts generally fared in the accident statistics vis-à-vis certified aircraft. This time around we’ll look at the safety records of specific homebuilt designs, starting with the Van’s RV.
Lietzan RV-10 with the elaborate paint job

RV-10 Paint Scheme Paints a Family Story

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Four generations influenced Ernie and Jeanne Lietzan’s RV-10.