California Here We (Finally) Come!
Moving is always painful. For the past month we’ve been operating in limbo while realtors and their clients wandered through the house / shop / office. As you may recall, we abandoned ship for a couple of weeks in May to let them look in peace. Fortunately, that worked and we now have a contract, […]
Moving To California
Dear Open Flight Customers, Several months ago my wife took a job with with a large technology company in the greater Silicon Valley area. I stayed behind in Kansas City, getting the house ready to sell and allowing our daughter to complete her senior year of high school. This weekend (May 13) she graduates. The […]
New Release With AHRS For ForeFlight
TL;DR – A new FlightBox update is available that adds AHRS support for ForeFlight and GPS NMEA output over RS232. Introducing v1.4r4 Welcome to the middle of winter. Things have been rather quiet for the past couple of months, which has allowed us to spend some time heads-down on new features and functions. First among those […]
Coming Soon: FlightBox EFIS
UPDATE: FlightView EFIS Is Now Available For the past two years Falken Avionics has been building and selling the FlightBox line of ADS-B receivers. From the beginning we envisioned FlightBox as the starting point for a much broader set of product intended to reduce costs while increasing safety. While we’re not quite “there” yet, we’re […]
Service Bulletin: ForeFlight Disconnect Issue
Update – 10/25/17 – This morning ForeFlight released version 9.4.3 which appears to have fixed the disconnect issue. Many thanks to the users who helped out by submitting data to the ForeFlight support team, and to ForeFlight for getting this resolved quickly in a point release. -S We have recently received a number of trouble […]
AHRS Board Now In Stock
After rather a longer wait than we had hoped, we now have our AHRS / GPS / Baro sensor boards back in stock. For those who already have a FlightBox, we’re offering upgrade kits for $160. For those who have not yet purchased a FlightBox, you can add the AHRS components to any Dual Band […]
Introducing FlightBox Pro
FlightBox Pro – FAA Approved For Permanent Installation I’m extremely pleased to announce that Falken Avionics has received FAA approval for FlightBox Pro, a new version of our FlightBox ADS-B / GPS / AHRS system which can be permanently installed in certified aircraft as a minor alteration. FlightBox Pro, priced at $675, provides weather, traffic, […]
FlightBox On AOPA Live This Week
AOPA senior editor Ian Twombly gave FlightBox a test drive. Jump to 6:00 for the story:
AHRS Side-By-Side Test
The FlightBox AHRS isn’t quite as smooth as the G1000, but given the $80,000 difference in price I’m not going to complain.
AHRS In Action Video
Pardon the poor video work, but it’s actually rather difficult to fly and film at the same time. This brief clip shows the new AHRS board in action. It’s a production board with beta software. The pitch is dead-on. Roll is off a bit, because the FlightBox was sitting in the seat beside me rather […]