It’s simple. It’s about power. It’s always about power. Check out a pilot in a new airplane and after 10 hours the first thing she’ll say is that it’s a good airplane but it needs more power. Aviation entrepreneurs have long recognized our hunger for a bigger rush when pushing the throttle from quiet to noisy, and have thus provided us with ever...
Navcomm Installs: More Than Radios
Whether for backing up a GPS navigator or serving as a primary and one-and-only radio, the digital navcomm radio is far from extinct. It could actually be making a comeback. That’s because there have been...
Aithre Illyrian II SpO2 Stick It on a Headset
The Illyrian full-time wearable SpO2 sensor was one of Aithre Aviation’s first products, and it has been an important component in Aithre’s app (and panel display) cockpit biometric monitoring suite. Unlike finger pulse oximeters that...
Electroair Ignition: Performance, Support
With the Lycoming O-360 in my Grumman Tiger freshly overhauled, I decided it was time to replace one of the mags with an Electroair electronic ignition. At the time (I started shopping for it and...
uAvionix skySensor: Wingtip Traffic and WX
When uAvionix brought the skyBeacon wingtip ADS-B Out/strobe light to market, it promised a certified companion device for the other wingtip that receives ADS-B traffic and weather. Four years later and with over 20,000...
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AEA 2023: Avidyne’s Replacement Avionics
At the Aircraft Electronics Association's International convention and trade show in Florida, Avidyne was showing its dealer network several replacement options for aging avionics....