The AmSafe Seatbelt Airbag is now installed on more than 9,000 commercial and general aviation aircraft around the world. The airbag is a self-contained, modular restraint designed to protect occupants from serious head-impact injury and enhance one’s ability to exit an aircraft following a survivable accident. Integrated into the lap belt portion of the seatbelt, […]
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Duncan certifies Honeywell AFGS for Hawker 800 and 1000 fleets
Duncan Aviation’s Glass Box Program recently added to its lineup with the certification of Honeywell’s latest Advanced File Graphics Server (AFGS) upgrade for the Hawker 800 and the Hawker 1000. The AFGS is a computing platform bringing advanced graphics generation capabilities, such as electronic charts and uplinked weather, together with mass data storage to allow […]
Eye it before you fly it
When flying to an unfamiliar airport, pilots often wonder, “What will it look like when I get there?” With Fly the Pattern, pilots can answer those questions, and many more, before they even leave the ground. Designed to give pilots the ability to “Eye It Before They Fly It,” Fly the Pattern is recruiting airport […]
Lycoming STC for Cardinal RG
Two months after the certification of the IO-390-A1A6 engine, Lycoming Engines has earned a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for installing the engine in a Cessna 177 Cardinal RG. The Cessna 177 Cardinal RG’s original engine is a Lycoming IO-360. This is the first STC Lycoming has received as part of the Lycoming Echelon STC program, […]
Duncan completes first Aircell broadband systems in Falcons
Duncan Aviation recently delivered the first Falcon 900 with Aircell Axxess and ATG 4000 High Speed Internet System. Duncan Aviation will soon deliver the first Falcon 50 with the same system. The Axxess system, coupled with the ATG 4000, provide worldwide Iridium voice telephone service and broadband data in the continental United States. To read […]
Cessna EVS STC awarded
One Sky Aviation and Forward Vision recently received an STC to install Forward Vision’s EVS-100 (powered by Max-Viz) Enhanced Vision System as an “All Models List” for the entire Cessna single engine piston product line, including the 100 series, 206, and 207 models. Patrick Farrell, president of Forward Vision, notes the STC includes all 158 […]
Merlin delivers first S333 sim
Merlin Simulation, Inc. recently delivered its re-configurable, new generation Pro-Series Schweizer 333 AATD to Rotors of the Rockies, which is located at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, Colorado. The training device features: High fidelity graphics; high fidelity cockpit; high fidelity systems replication, including engine start up and shut down with all of the associated […]
Micro Aerodynamics celebrates 20 years
In the past two decades, Micro AeroDynamics has earned STCs on more than 500 different models of aircraft, shipped out thousands of VG kits, and received more than 60 phone calls and letters from pilots who claim they owe their lives to the vortex generators. Still going strong, the company continues to expand the list […]
Fly before you buy
The e-Go aircraft may not be in production yet, but you can try it now. e-Go aeroplanes has developed an x-plane simulator that anyone can download for free from its website at www.e-Go.me. (You also need a copy of the x-plane package, which is $39 from www.x-plane.com). The simulation, which features a 3D cockpit and […]