Axis Jet has launched a new air charter division. The FAA-approved Part 135 air carrier service is based at Sacramento Executive Airport in California. Axis Jet’s charter fleet includes a King Air 350, King Air 300 and King Air C90B. For more information: 916-391-5000
Computer pilots can fly like the pros with Jeppesen SIMCharts
Jeppesen recently launched the latest offering in its long-running SIMCharts product line. Designed exclusively for flight simulation enthusiasts, virtual airline operators, and pilots who use PC simulators to develop or hone their skills, SIMCharts v4.0 plugs and plays with Microsoft Flight Simulator X and contains a worldwide terminal chart set that matches the Jeppesen NavData […]
American Legend offers freebies with the Legend Cub
American Legend Aircraft Co. has introduced an incentive program for new Legend Cub customers, giving buyers two Bose Aviation Headset X, a retail value of $1,990. To take advantage of this offer, new customers must place an order for the company’s AL3 open cowl model, which includes the Continental O-200 100-horsepower engine with composite propeller, […]
New free email accounts promote flying
Pilot Journey has introduced a free email account with some interesting benefits. The service is available on PilotJourney.net or TogetherWeFly.com and includes 1 gigabyte of email space along with features such as automatic email notification and calendaring. The concept, according to Gary Bradshaw, president of Pilot Journey, is to encourage people into taking a discovery […]
Free software helps builders
Where can an airplane builder go to glean free insight and tips from hundreds of their peers? ExperCraft offers just such a destination at ExperCraft.com via its Simple Log documentation software. In the two years since Simple Log’s debut, aircraft builders have logged 40,285 hours of progress on more than 100 different types of homebuilt […]
Max Trescott’s Garmin G1000 CD-ROM Course now available
Building on the popularity of Max Trescott’s G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and the online internet G1000 training courses at PilotLearning.com, Glass Cockpit Publishing has released its new G1000 CD-ROM course. Created and produced by a Master CFI who teaches daily in glass cockpit aircraft, this course not only explains the G1000 system, but teaches you […]
TMC Pacific Modelworks custom and hand-made models
TMC Pacific Modelworks answers the challenge of gift-giving for the aviator who seems to have everything, offering fine scale model airplanes. More than 1,000 military, commercial and private aircraft models are available. TMC also can make custom models from photographs supplied by aircraft owners. All details, from the obvious to the minute, are recreated on […]
‘The Few’: The tale of American pilots in the Battle of Britain
“The Few, The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain,” by Alex Kershaw, details the exploits of American pilots who risked criminal prosecution, not to mention their lives, to fight in the Battle of Britain. At the time America was neutral, and those who joined in the […]
‘A Legacy of Letters’: Book chronicles World War II hero’s hopes, dreams, fears
In 2002, Clinton Frederick returned to his grandparents’ house for a family wedding. Remembering from his childhood that the attic contained Japanese swords, a parachute and other World War II memorabilia, he decided to look around up there. In an old trunk he found more than 100 letters written by his father, Capt. George Frederick, […]