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The Smart Aviator

AvBrief.com

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Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 17

The Smart Aviator is your trusted, independent voice in aviation. From aircraft and avionics to training, upgrades, and maintenance, it delivers unbiased, expert advice and reporting—free from influence. Hosted by respected aviation journalists and pilots, it continues a 56-year tradition of clear, honest insights for buyers and enthusiasts alike.

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Colorado Autoland: Blackhawk On the Tech Behind the First Activation

Episode 12

Saturday, December 27, 2025 • Duration 17:16

While media praised the recent Garmin Autoland King Air save, the installer—Blackhawk Aerospace—also deserves credit. Installing aftermarket Autoland and autothrottle is complex, and full testing is impossible without an in-flight emergency. On this podcast, Blackhawk’s Conrad Theisen discusses the install and the real-world save.

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Smoke In the Cockpit: EVAS Vision Tunnel

Episode 11

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 • Duration 12:43

Cockpit smoke emergencies in air carrier and commercial jet ops are more common than you might think. So common that a company called VisionSafe developed the EVAS—for Emergency Vision Assurance System. Its deployment has been responsible for lots of safe landings in everything from airliners to corporate jets to freighters.

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High Flying Hangars: More Than Aircraft Storage

Episode 2

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 • Duration 23:59

It's a dilemma at a lot of airports—you score the airplane of your dreams, but soon realize that sourcing a hangar to keep it in safe storage is nearly impossible. Long lead times for occupying cookie cutter T hangars, expensive and restrictive arrangements in a community hangar, and the red tape of building your own hangar on a state airport only scratch the surface of hassles. A company called High Flying Hangars has been successfully populating its premium-priced, custom-built hangars around the country, and built with amenities seldom found in a basic T hangar. To learn more about the model, Smart Aviator's Larry Anglisano sat down with High Flying Hangars' Lisa DeFrees for a report on Episode 2 of the Smart Aviator podcast.

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Cockpit Eyewear and the Meyers 200 with Dean Siracusa

Episode 1

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 • Duration 22:32

There are plenty of good reasons to make informed decisions when investing big in a pair of eyeglasses for flying. Think of protection in case of a birdstrike and crash, optical clarity for using glass displays and tablet computers, and in the case of correcting vision and the inevitable aging eyes—your prescription. In the Smart Aviator Podcast Episode 1, host Larry Anglisano talks it through with Flying Eyes founder Dean Siracusa, plus they talk about the rare and interesting Meyers 200-series airplanes.

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Dynon Avionics: Growing Market Reach

Episode 10

Friday, November 21, 2025 • Duration 14:13

Avionics buyers want options. With roots planted deeply in the experimental aircraft market, Dynon Avionics has been gaining sizable momentum in the current market with a wide range of avionics products for both experimental and certified aircraft.

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Avionics Training: Sims Work Best

Episode 9

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 • Duration 21:24

Flight1's advanced sims offer G1000 NXi realism for Cirrus and Piper pilots—ideal tools for avionics mastery outside the cockpit.

Nighthawk Guardian Flight Deck—Is it a Disruptor?

Episode 8

Friday, October 31, 2025 • Duration 18:38

At AirVenture 2025 at Oshkosh, Nighthawk Flight Systems got a lot of attention when it showed a clean sheet integrated avionics suite called Guardian. The Guardian was an attention getter with its tight graphics, thin displays, a liberal IO that works with a large variety of third-party analog and digital avionics, plus a price tag that was said to be under $40,000. Nighthawk Flight Systems (it bought Sandel Avionics a few years ago) promised to start shipping FAA-approved (via an AML-STC) as early as December 2024. Since that's just a couple of months away, we followed up on the project with company CEO Paul Martin, who not only promised a seamless installation and high-level field support, but set aggressive goals for the system's initial certification and growth.

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Aircraft Insurance Policies: AI for Assessing Risk

Episode 7

Friday, October 24, 2025 • Duration 18:43

In a hardened insurance market that's causing grief for pilots of complex and tailwheel models, Maryland-based SkyWatch Aviation Insurance has been gaining attention for its modern approach to assessing risk. Using AI models to better match a pilot to a policy, the company has a website utility where pilots enter their information and the program shops for coverage with a variety of underwriters, and buyers can often score coverage on the spot. SkyWatch is credited for working with AOPA to create a senior pilot insurance program to help aging pilots get liability insurance in hopes of stretching their flying careers. To learn more about the company and for an update on the current market (and for tips on aircraft upgrade decisions with insurance in mind), we talked with SkyWatch's senior underwriting manager, Alon Admi.

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How not to crash a plane—and tips for survival if you do

Episode 6

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Duration 23:21

We continue to wreck airplanes for the same reasons we always have, but there are plenty of things we can do to survive—if not avoid the mistakes in the first place. Respected aviation author Rick Durden and Larry Anglisano talk about tailwheel airplanes, twins, and jet safety considerations, and a bit about the Cessna 340 in episode 5 of the Smart Aviator Podcast.

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Supercharger on a Cirrus: Effective, but orphaned

Episode 5

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 • Duration 11:02

While not exactly turbochargers, superchargers are air compressors directly driven by the engine via a belt, gears or the crankshaft. Forced Aeromotive, with its bolt-on belt-driven supercharger mod, took an interesting approach in boosting engine power for increased performance. These systems work, and ones we’ve flown boost cruise speeds by up to 20 knots over a normally aspirated models. But the real appeal is that climb rate goes up as much as 500 FPM. But with the passing of Forced Aeromotive founder Rod Sage last year, owners are reporting a halt in parts supply and engineering support. That means abandoning an otherwise good-performing system at a sizable cost in performance and investment.In this video, supercharged-modded Cirrus SR22 owner Alexander Wolf shows us around the modded Continental engine on his Cirrus and explains the situation he faces with an AOG airplane that needs replacement parts.

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