If you’re considering a gift for your favorite pilot, copilot, or maybe just for yourself, anyone who loves to fly always appreciates new flying toys

Imagine you’re cruising along at night, VFR, with the family in your plane at 5,000 feet. Suddenly, you hear a pop, smell a little smoke, and everything in your panel goes dark.

Bendix King AeroCruze 100. Bendix King AeroCruze 230. The summer of 2017 brought what I described...

Up until recently, pilots kept their wings level and on course using vacuum-driven mechani­cal gyros. The mechanical attitude indicator (AI) and directional gyro (DG) have been with us for many years

When anticipating an avionics upgrade, especially a whole-panel upgrade, we tend to put a lot of thought into the equipment, with consideration for how we plan to fly, our budget, and what equipment is best for our mission.

No matter your motive for upgrading your panel, it makes sense to do it right and to know what the aircraft will be worth when it comes time to sell. Remember, you’re putting hours on the engine, which, frankly, has the greatest effect on aircraft val­ues (that and damage history). You also need to know who you are and where you are going.

What is worth the investment? It often depends on what will be repairable in the future I got into...

If you have ever attended a hockey or baseball game with a Canadian team competing, you have heard...

Photo by History in HD on Unsplash It was 1903 when Wilbur and Orville made the first powered...

In February 2021, I talked about “Music in the Cockpit” and how to add it if you are not taking...

I have previously written about avionics tools that can ease pilot load. Obviously, GPS and...

Piper with Electronics International MVP-50 Last month we discussed engine analyzers. Analyzers...

Piper panel with EI CGR-30P installed. Photo courtesy of Pacific Coast Avionics From the 1960s...

You would be surprised how many times I have had a client ask me what they can buy to fill an...

We have previously discussed the latest in EFIS technology. No question, this is amazing stuff....

Avionics writer Bob Hart discusses EFIS in this article from a recent issue that turned into basically a uAvionix AV-30-C Review.