Marc Cook

2 weeks ago | kitplanes.com | Marc Cook

CompAir designer Ron Lueck briefs us on the two CompAir models being shown at Sun ‘n Fun 2025. The piston-powered version, with a 350-hp twin-turbocharged Lycoming, has been seen before. But the newest iteration has a walter 601D on the nose and provides impressive cruise numbers in addition to room for six-plus people inside the cavernous interior. With a simple strutless cantilever wing and fixed gear, the CompAir 6.2 is meant to be easy to fly for its size.

3 weeks ago | kitplanes.com | Marc Cook

Dynon Avionics showed off its new Corgi electric servos designed for trim and other applications. Already flying in the Vashon Ranger, the Corgis are designed for Experimental and Light Sport application and use the familiar footprint of existing electric servos. Dynon also beefed up the wiring and “connectorized” the system, making it easier on the builder.

3 weeks ago | kitplanes.com | Marc Cook

VIDEO Ryan Edmark introduces the new AeroLEDS Nano strobe and position lights as well as the recently released SunBeam Equinox rectangular taxi and landing light at Sun ‘n Fun 2025. Marc Cook is a veteran special-interest journalist who started as a staffer at AOPA Pilot in the late 1980s. Marc has built two airplanes, an Aero Designs Pulsar XP and a Glasair Aviation Sportsman, and now owns a 180-hp, recently modernized GlaStar based in western Oregon.

1 month ago | planeandpilotmag.com | Marc Cook

It’s been half a decade since the ADS-B “mandate” to equip became effective. There’s no doubt it’s been a useful technology for pilots, though recent events have caused those who early on questioned privacy matters to speak up once again. We were assured that ADS-B tracking data would not be used “against” us, as in for enforcement actions or for user fees. We know the second of those promises has already been broken.

1 month ago | kitplanes.com | Marc Cook

It started simply enough. With a mistake. OK, maybe just a misapplication of learned behavior. I’ll back up a couple of steps to explain. Roughly a year ago, in the midst of a comprehensive instrument-panel rework in my GlaStar, I’d decided to apply a lesson taught to me by my Sportsman way back in, oh, 2008.