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uAvionix ADS-B Tech Tips: Troubleshooting From Their AirVenture Session
uAvionix ADS-B Tech Tips: Troubleshooting From Their AirVenture Session
If you've fitted a uAvionix ADS-B unit, or you're about to, there's a useful resource worth bookmarking. At AirVenture Oshkosh 2026, uAvionix Support ran a technical session on getting the... Read more...
Upgrading the Panel? Check the Fuel Senders Before You Close It Up
Upgrading the Panel? Check the Fuel Senders Before You Close It Up
When an aircraft comes into the hangar for a panel upgrade, everyone looks at the displays. New glass, new navigators, a new autopilot. The fuel quantity system usually gets a... Read more...
Garmin Flight Logs Now Feed 12 Services, Including a New Insurer and Maintenance Platform
Garmin Flight Logs Now Feed 12 Services, Including a New Insurer and Maintenance Platform
Every flight your Garmin avionics records is data you're probably not using. Garmin has just widened what you can do with it: two new services, Class A and Coflyt, join... Read more...
Why an Early Bonanza's Fuel Quantity Can Rise in Flight
Why an Early Bonanza's Fuel Quantity Can Rise in Flight
Burn fuel, and the gauge goes down. That's the rule — until you fly an early Bonanza and watch one tank's quantity rise while you're cruising on another. It isn't... Read more...
100,000 Sentry Receivers Shipped: What It Means for South African Pilots
100,000 Sentry Receivers Shipped: What It Means for South African Pilots
uAvionix and Jeppesen ForeFlight have announced that they have shipped 100,000 Sentry ADS-B receivers. For a portable box that started life as a compact traffic and weather receiver, that's a... Read more...
Garmin's All-Glass Retrofit Reaches the Original CitationJet
Garmin's All-Glass Retrofit Reaches the Original CitationJet
If you fly an original CitationJet, a CJ1 or a CJ2, Garmin has just closed the gap that kept the oldest of the three out of its all-glass retrofit programme.... Read more...
Garmin's Fall 2026 Rebates: Buy More, Save More Until 15 November
Garmin's Fall 2026 Rebates: Buy More, Save More Until 15 November
Garmin has just opened its Fall 2026 promotions, and if a panel upgrade has been on your list, the timing is worth a look. Two rebate programmes and a returning... Read more...
Reminder: Garmin's GSA 28 Servo Exchange Program Ends 4 May 2028
Reminder: Garmin's GSA 28 Servo Exchange Program Ends 4 May 2028
If your Garmin autopilot has a GSA 28 pitch, roll, or trim servo, this is worth two minutes of your time. Back in May 2023, Garmin launched a Service-Life Extension... Read more...
AeroLEDs Launches the NANO Beacon: Compact Anti-Collision Lighting
AeroLEDs Launches the NANO Beacon: Compact Anti-Collision Lighting
AeroLEDs has just launched the NANO Beacon — a remarkably compact, high-output LED anti-collision light for aircraft and platforms where space, weight, and power are all at a premium. As... Read more...
Avidyne Vantage 12: Modern Glass for Your Entegra Cirrus
Avidyne Vantage 12: Modern Glass for Your Entegra Cirrus
If you fly an Entegra-equipped Cirrus and have looked at the cost and complexity of modernising the panel, there is now a path that does not involve tearing the whole... Read more...
GTX 335 vs GTX 345: Which ADS-B Transponder?
GTX 335 vs GTX 345: Which ADS-B Transponder?
Garmin GTX 335 or GTX 345? We compare ADS-B Out vs In, indicative South African pricing and installation at our Lanseria facility so you can choose the right transponder for... Read more...
The 12-Year Rule Just Changed: Condition-Based Engine Monitoring Now in Force
The 12-Year Rule Just Changed: Condition-Based Engine Monitoring Now in Force
A welcome moment for South Africa's general aviation industry. Aeronautical Aviation is ready to assist aircraft owners in returning their aircraft to service — engine monitoring, ADS-B, MPI, and avionics... Read more...

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uAvionix ADS-B Tech Tips: Troubleshooting From Their AirVenture Session

uAvionix ADS-B Tech Tips: Troubleshooting From Their AirVenture Session

|Clinton Carroll
If you've fitted a uAvionix ADS-B unit, or you're about to, there's a useful resource worth bookmarking. At AirVenture Oshkosh 2026, uAvionix Support ran a technical session on getting the...