Marc Cook

Marc Cook is the Editor in Chief of sister publication KITPLANES Magazine and 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. Marc has 5000 hours spread over 200-plus types and four decades of flying.
Marc Cook

The Look-Ahead Cub

Airplanes anyone would recognize as a “Cub” are not always at the forefront of technology. The tube-and-fabric taildraggers seem to be glancing over their shoulders more often than looking ahead.  CubCrafters, the Yakima, Washington, manufacturer that now employs more than 220 people and kicks out Part 23-certified aircraft, LSA models and experimental kits while supporting […]

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Marc Cook

uAvionix AV-30 Fly-Off: Autopilot, Heading

After we ran the uAvionix AV-30 installation planning guide in the May 2022 issue of Aviation Consumer, we got some requests for an inflight shakedown report of the instrument’s autopilot and heading interface. And while the new autopilot interface is only open to experimentals (for now), contributor Marc Cook has been flying behind an AV-30 […]

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Marc Cook

uAvionix AV-30 EFIS: New Capabilities

When uAvionix introduced the AV-20 and AV-30 round-format electronic flight instruments, the company made it clear that more capabilities would be added later through both software updates and hardware additions. The company has been doing just that, incrementally. Here’s an update. AV-LINK   For the large AV-30, which fits into a 3 1/8-inch instrument hole, […]

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