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Garmin Offers New Rebate Programs for King Air G1000 Upgrades

Posted on January 31, 2015 by admin

Right now is the best time to upgrade your Beech King Air to a Garmin G1000 Integrated Flight Deck at Maxcraft Avionics. From now until May 29th, Garmin is offering a $50,000 rebate on G1000 installations for Pro Line 21-equipped … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics News | Tagged 200, 300, 350, airplane, avionics system upgrades, B200, Beech King Air, Canada, efis, facility, Flight Instruments, garmin, Garmin G1000, glass cockpit systems, GPS, Helicopter, integrated flight deck, inventory, King Air C90, King Airs, Maxcraft Avionics, Pro Line 21, tcas, VHF radios | Comments Off

“Airshow” the new tv series by Discovery Channel

Posted on January 24, 2015 by admin

Check out “Airshow”, the 12-part series, premiering on January 26 at 7pm PT. “Airshow” is an original Canadian tv series exclusively for Discovery. This is a unique, never been told before documentary series that takes viewers behind the scenes to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airplanes, airshow, Aviation, canadian, Dave Mathieson, Discovery Channel, documentary, executive producer, mark miller, pilots, planet, Super Dave, tv, viewers | Comments Off

Garmin Announces Solid State Radar for Helicopters

Posted on January 14, 2015 by admin

GWX 70H Brings Advanced Radar Features to Rotorcraft Garmin is pleased to announce the helicopter-optimized GWX 70H weather radar, that combines exceptional range and adjustable scanning profiles with precision target definition for accurate, real-time weather analysis in the cockpit. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics News | Tagged airplane, avionic system upgrades, Canada, capable, cockpit, displays, doppler, efis, enablement, flight, Flight Instruments, G1000H, G500H, garmin, glass cockpit systems, GPS, ground clutter suppression, GTN 725, Gtn 750, GWX 70, GWX 70H, Helicopter, installation, integrated flight deck, Maxcraft Avionics, radar, radar for helicopters, tcas, turbulence detection, VHF radios, weather radar systems | Comments Off

Keeping it interesting in the hangar

Posted on December 23, 2014 by admin

Maxcraft’s full hangar with an array of different style aircraft. Maxcraft’s hangar floor showed a lot of variety this week, with aircraft ranging single engine Cessnas, to turboprop corporate planes, and executive rotorcraft. The Eurocopters you see right and centre … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics News | Tagged aircraft, airplane, Aspend EFD-1000 Primary Flight Display, Avionics, Beechcraft Bonanza, Canada, Cessna 152, cockpit, efis, eurocopters, facility, flights instruments, G500, Garmin GTN650 Navigator, glass cockpit systems, GPS, GTN Navigaors, GTN750, hangar, Helicopter, Maxcraft Aivonics, Mid-Continent, parts, Pilatus PC-12, Port Aircraft Interiors, Primary Flight Display, tcas, upgrades, Upper Valley Aviation, VHF radios, XM satellite | Comments Off

What’s happening at Maxcraft

Posted on December 18, 2014 by admin

The very first Flight Stream install! Finally iPad/iPhone connections to your avionics! Maxcraft performed the first Garmin Connext installation with our customer Dave Qualley. Read on for his comments: When Garmin first announced their Flight Stream product back in August I … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics 101, Pilot Stories | Tagged 182, apps, Aspen PFD, Dave Qualley, Flight Stream, Foreflight, Garmin 530W, Garmin Connext, Garmin Pilot, IFR, iPad, iPhone, route, Synthetic Vision, Victor, weather | Comments Off

Bose Holiday Promotion

Posted on December 15, 2014 by admin

Get a BOSE headset! Get a gift! The more you buy, the better the gift! Buy 1 A20 Aviation Headset, get a Companion 2 Series III Multimedia speaker system. Buy 2 A20 Aviation Headsets and get a SoundDock … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics News | Tagged A20 Aviation Headset, airplane, avionic system upgrades, Bose, Canada, cockpit, Companion 2 Series III Multimedia, Companion 5 multimedia speaker system, digital, efis, facility, Flight Instruments, gift, glass cockpit systems, GPS, headset, Helicopter, installation, Maxcraft, Maxcraft Avionics, music, part numbers, SoundDock Series III, speakers, tcas, VHF Radio, Wave music system III | Comments Off

Spot Rebates

Posted on December 2, 2014 by admin

50% off promotion! We have three different SPOTs to choose from: Spot Gen3 – mail in rebate of $85 Spot Trace – mail in rebate of $60 Spot Global phone – mail in rebate of $250 Purchase a SPOT device between November … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics News | Tagged airplane, Canada, customers, efis, Flight Instruments, glass cockpit systems, GPS, helicopter avionics systems, holiday rebate, household, installation, inventory, Maxcraft Aivionics, Rebate, receive 50% off, SPOT, Spot Gen3, Spot Global phone, Spot Trace, tcas, unique part numbers, upgrades, VHF radios | Comments Off

New Flight Deck Avionics Suite Unveiled by Universal Avionics

Posted on November 15, 2014 by admin

The first peek of Universal Avionics’ newest avionics suite – the feature-rich InSight Integrated Flight Deck was introduced at NBAA2014. The highlight of the system is the embedded next generation Synthetic Vision System (SVS) with advanced mapping capability and intuitive … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics 101, Avionics News | Tagged Alphanumeric Keyboard, ANK, broadcast weather support, Cessna Citation VII, data Concentrator Unit, DCU, EFI-1040 Display, electronic charts, Electronic Control Display Unit (ECDU), graphical flight planning, Graphical Pilot Interface, Insight, Insight Integrated Flight Deck, mapping capbability, MFD, PFD, radio control, STC, SVS, Synthetic Vision System (SVS) | Comments Off

Holiday Handheld Rebate

Posted on November 3, 2014 by admin

Garmin is spreading some holiday cheer! Save up to $100 on select Garmin Portables between now and December 26th, 2014. Rebates are available for the aera 500 series, aera 795/796, GPSMAP 695/696, VIRB Elite Aviation bundle and the VIRB/D2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Latest & Greatest Avionics | Tagged aera, airplane, amounts, avionic system upgrades, avionics facility, christmas, D2 watch, efis, Elite Aviation bundle, flight sintruments, garmin, glass cockpit systems, GPS, Helicopter, holiday, installation, Maxcraft Avionics, Pilot Watch, portable, Rebate, tcas, VHF radios, VIRB, Virb D2 pack | Comments Off

Synthetic Vision Trial from Aspen

Posted on October 10, 2014 by admin

Aspen Avionics is pleased to begin offering the trial version of synthetic vision with new orders for Apsen Evolution EFD1000 Pro PFDs. In addition , Aspen is making available an SV trial enablement kit for existing customers with Pro PFDs. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Avionics 101 | Tagged aircraft, Aspen Avionics, avionic system, C3, Canada, cockpit, EFD1000, efis, ESV, ESV trial, glass cockpit systems, GPS, MAP, Maxcraft Avionics, MFDs, PFD, pilot, Pro-H, Synthetic Vision, tcas, upgrade, VFR PFDs | Comments Off