The FAA has proposed discontinuing the Hazardous Inflight Weather Advisory Service (HIWAS) as part of an agency streamlining effort.
HIWAS is a voice broadcast that has existed since the early 1980s, providing hazardous weather advisories over VOR radio navigation systems. [Read more…]
AKRON, Ohio — Shaesta Waiz, the youngest woman to fly solo around the world in a single-engine aircraft, will christen Wingfoot Three, the newest addition to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company‘s fleet of blimps.
The ceremony will be held Aug. 30, 2018, at 2 p.m. ET at Goodyear’s Wingfoot Lake Hangar, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. [Read more…]
Garmin Navigation Database information now includes South America.
The database will soon be available in the newly expanded Americas OnePak, which offers coverage in North, Central and South America and provides database updates across all Garmin avionics and a portable in a single aircraft. [Read more…]
Avionics sales topped $1.3 billion in the first half of 2018, a 15.5% increase over last year.
According to the Aircraft Electronics Association’s second-quarter 2018 Avionics Market Report, sales during the second-quarter months of April, May and June in 2018 topped $682 million, a 17.8% increase compared to the 2017 second-quarter sales of more than $578 million. [Read more…]
The Commemorative Air Force and Hemlock Films have begun filming for the new film “CAF Rise Above: WASP.”
This new film about the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) is part of the larger Rise Above education initiative created by the Commemorative Air Force museum. [Read more…]
The Port Townsend Aero Museum will host Miss Veedol and the Spirit of Wenatchee group on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. The airplane will be on display from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. UPDATE: Area smoke from forest fires may prevent Miss Veedol from flying to Port Townsend. Best to call the museum (360-379-5244) on Friday or Saturday to confirm. [Read more…]
A new app has launched designed to make weather decisions easier for pilots.
“Our goal with WeatherSpork was to integrate weather data in a way that makes it easy to interpret and provides the user with a quick way to assess the weather,” explains Scott Dennstaedt, a long-time CFI and former National Weather Service meteorologist and the force behind AvWx Workshops.
While there are a lot of weather resources available to pilots, most just throw a lot of data at a pilot and say “you figure it out,” he notes.
“That’s been the paradigm since the Wright brothers,” he said. [Read more…]
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — After thousands of people made their choice at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018, the winner of the Pick the Paint Poll for EAA’s One Week Wonder has been unveiled.
For the One Week Wonder project, Experimental Aircraft Association staff and volunteers built a Van’s RV-12 during the big show. Construction began at 8 a.m. July 23 and the plane flew for the first time July 30, 2018. [Read more…]
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — New from the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is the EAA Virtual Flight Academy, a new new tool for building pilot skills and proficiency. [Read more…]
At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018, ICON Aircraft launched a beta test for its new managed fractional program for the ICON A5.
Called ICON Fleet Access, the program offers 50% and 25% ownership shares of the amphibious light-sport aircraft.
The program also allows owners to use other shared A5 aircraft in various locations across the U.S. as if they were their own, company officials note.
The program provides all scheduled maintenance, storage, insurance, scheduling, dispatch, staging, pre-positioning, as well as A5 trailer access. [Read more…]
