PS Engineering’s PAV80 has a CD and DVD player, along with AM/FM radio.

And now a nod of the editorial Fedora to the avionics industry. As the new century comes off the starting blocks, the industry continues to produce navigation and communication gear of astonishing capability at prices that, if not cheap, are at least affordable.

While we’re saluting, we’ll also note the industry hasn’t done as well in providing cockpit entertainment options. We’re not sure why this is so but surmise that looking out the window is all the entertainment some owners seem to require, thus the market is hardly vast. For those of us who drone across multiple states and half-continents on our appointed rounds or have to keep kids occupied in…