New Sky Products, LLC has introduced AppStation, an iPad kneeboard for aviation, which gives the user the ability to safely manipulate the iPad while flying or conducting other tasks. The unit is a solution that does not require an additional mounting device/kit or expensive, complicated installation, according to company officials. Constructed of high performance polycarbonate […]
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Free flight sharing website launches
WorldAeroClub.org has launched to match GA pilots — and non-pilots — who wish to get together and fly. To do just that they click themselves into the cockpit using the website’s automated Flight Dispatch that matches all flights and flight requests. The website also offers a number of useful features to pilots who wish to […]
Dynon adds traffic alerts to SkyView
Dynon Avionics has added the ability to alert and display air traffic graphically, TCAS-like, within its SkyView products. Traffic will show up on SkyView’s moving map and synthetic vision displays using standard TCAS I symbols. SkyView will identify the location, severity of threat, distance, vertical separation and heading of any aircraft within the traffic system […]
Duncan Aviation introduces blog
Duncan Aviation has started a blog, “The Duncan Download.” This blog is occasionally technical, but not always, according to company officials. In it, the company provides its perspective on many facets of the business aviation industry, including Wi-Fi, HSD, WAAS, Duncan Aviation-Provo updates, blended winglet modifications, community volunteerism and industry updates. Readers can subscribe and […]
Narco Avionics celebrates 65 years
Narco Avionics, in Fort Washington, Penna., commences celebration of its 65th year in business by unveiling its New Radio Rebate and Factory Service Discount Program. The program, which starts Nov. 1 and runs through January 21, 2011, will provide a $50 rebate to all customers who purchase a new transponder and a $75 rebate to […]
American Flyers to open branch office
American Flyers Flight School will open a new branch office on the west side of Chicago Executive Airport (PWK), Nov. 1. The new facility features 1,300 square feet of classrooms, testing facilities and flight training devices. It will cater to pilots preparing for their private pilot and instrument rating FAA knowledge tests. Additionally, weekend classes […]
Claire Bear books win national recognition
USABookNews.com has named two publications from Powder Puff Pilot as finalists of uts Best Books 2010 Awards. Claire Bear’s First Solo was recognized in the Children’s Picture Book: Softcover Fiction category, while Claire Bear Explains…What Pilots Fly placed as a finalist in the Children’s Picture Book: Softcover Non-Fiction category. The books, written by Sue Hughes […]
Navy patrol plane arrives for Northwest Naval Aviation Appreciation Day
In appreciation of Northwest naval aviation, The Museum of Flight in Seattle will present a day of activities Oct. 30, including the exhibition of a U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion patrol aircraft in the museum parking lot, and a 2 p.m. panel presentation with P-3 flight crew members. The four-engine Orion is based at […]
Free Flight Simulator App released
Just released for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch is Fly Away Simulation’s flight simulator app, which features live flight simulator topics delivered to users’ mobile devices so that they can keep up to date with the latest flight sim topics while on the move. The free app, which is now available globally to all users […]