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(SUMMARY) For anyone who needs to haul a lot of stuff and fly fast while doing it, the choices are limited. Unless you have a million-dollar -plus turbine budget, legacy piston twins are the top contenders. And in that group, Piper s Navajo will survive to the...
(SUMMARY) The world of noise-canceling headsets is largely ruled by the high-end units like the Bose X and Lightspeed Zulu. If pilots baby their ears, it seems they go for the best they can buy. But there s still a place for good deal on ANR, be it for...
(SUMMARY) There is no perfect cockpit GPS. Some folks want a big screen; others need portability. Some want all the frills and some just need the essentials. What the iFly does best is what it does right after startup: display scanned charts. The screen is...
(SUMMARY) Back when fiberglass airframes were first coming to the piston-single market, one of the sales brochure bullet points was that they would be cheaper to maintain: no corrosion, patching or fill for minor dings, simpler structures with less to inspect...
(SUMMARY) Not 10 seconds after Wilbur cracked up the Flyer that cold December morning at Kitty Hawk, Orville must have asked, "what s this gonna cost me?" And we ve been asking ever since, never more so than now as the future of 100LL hangs in the uncertain...
(SUMMARY) Modern aircraft audio systems are self-contained control boxes and can handle nearly every aspect of cockpit and cabin communications. They command the radios in the avionics stack, provide seat-to-seat intercom function and even offer high-fidelity...
(SUMMARY) The modern car engine even a cheap one is such a marvel that you can turn the key without thinking about its once-in-a-million failure-rate ECU, its direct-fire coils and fuel injectors that can paint the Mona Lisa in 93-octane pulses. Oh, and if you...
(SUMMARY) In an era when the state-of-the-art aircraft have to be baked in an oven after being laid up in plastic sheets squished together in vacuum bags, it s hard to imagine that a wood and fabric wonder like the Bellanca Viking still exists. But it does....
(SUMMARY) The iPad may be many things to many people, but there are several things it is not: a moving map, a good navigator or a datalink weather display. I doubt if Garmin will even feel a minor nick in sales from iPad competition. The iPad is, however, an...
(SUMMARY) To visit Lycoming and Continental, as we did last month, is to step into a disconnected world that almost qualifies as an alternate reality. And no, we re not resurrecting the hackneyed complaint that the engine companies are out of touch with the...
(SUMMARY) Part of the grand promise of Light Sport aircraft and the Sport Pilot license was it would reinvigorate flight training, bringing busloads of new pilot starts attracted to cheaper flying with fewer requirements (like a medical certificate). Soon...
(SUMMARY) Flying low and slow with the occasional whiff of honeysuckle through the open cabin window is what flying an Aeronca Champ is all about. There s a certain romance tagging along with a rag-and-tube two-seater that s left over from the post-World War...
(SUMMARY) Despite the ridiculous backup common to modern cockpits, the portable radio is the last resort when all other options fail. But not all are created equal, and add-ons, such as an external antenna connection, can play seriously into performance and...
(SUMMARY) When Cirrus went its own way and offered the Tornado Alley Turbo as an STC in the SR22, the market practically planted a wet kiss on the project. Now, with a new model called the SR22T, Cirrus is following up with a groundboosted rather than a...
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