October 26, 2012
What should an ideal backup avionics system be? Should it be a big, heavy, expensive box filling up the airplane with hordes of possibly chaffing or […]
August 5, 2014
“Whatever goes wrong with tomorrow’s flight, it WON’T be access to data.” These were among my last words to my wife that evening as I settled […]
February 23, 2015
This adventure is LONG, and maybe boring, but full of information! Many might be bored and should stop now, but anyone interested in experimental aviation construction […]
March 1, 2015
OK so I was flying West to East in the winter in my Columbia-400 and the Garmin-1000 winds-aloft page showed 100-knot tailwinds up high. (Real high: […]
March 2, 2015
So a thing I have been doing a lot recently is writing, testing, and tuning Xavion! Xavion is an App that I wrote to do everything […]
March 5, 2015
Apple says that iPads are good to at least 10,000 feet. But how much higher can they go? Xavion can detect and warn of cabin de-pressurization, […]
March 10, 2015
So flying N844X is a different type of flying than I have ever done, and uses a rather large amount of fuel (25 gallons per hour […]
March 23, 2015
Check out Xavion at www.Xavion.com if you do not know what it is. OK done? All right. So all of my Xavion testing so far in […]
March 31, 2015
It’s always easy to ADD MORE STUFF to a design. The HARD part is TAKING STUFF AWAY. I remember the first time I saw X-Plane, and […]
April 13, 2015
Dear Senator or Congressman: Some years ago, living in a cheap apartment by my local airport, I wrote X-Plane, a flight simulator that has since grown […]