Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Jeppesen ForeFlight is venturing further into the hardware side of aviation with the Sentry SkyPlay, an instrument that mounts in an aircraft’s panel and replicates the ForeFlight Mobile electronic flight bag environment. SkyPlay is manufactured by uAvionix, which also makes the Sentry series of ADS-B receivers for Jeppesen ForeFlight. Pricing and availability will be announced later.
SkyPlay isn’t just the one instrument that visitors to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh next week can see at the Jeppesen ForeFlight exhibit, but part of what the company said is “a connected avionics and mobile device ecosystem that brings the familiar ForeFlight experience to the panel while preserving the flexibility pilots value on their iPad.”
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Providing a panel view of ForeFlight, a so-called replay display, is not new, and Honeywell has proposed this on its Anthem avionics platform. Honeywell’s idea is to make space on the panel displays for web-based apps.
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