Goodies and Gadgets - November 2012

Holiday Ideas for the Pilot on Your List

Watches For The Adventurous Woman

The Abingdon Co. is a specialty watch company that was created with one goal in mind: to provide adventurous women with stylish, practical and high-quality aviation and travelling watches.

Founded in 2006 by a young woman pilot, Abingdon Welch, The Abingdon Co. offers three models – the “Jackie,” the “Amelia” and the “Elise.” The watches feature multiple times zones, flight calculations and conversion capabilities (foreign exchange, imperial to metric units), date function, chronograph timer and luminous hands and markers. The assemblies in each watch come from all over the world, including the US, Switzerland, Japan, and Hong Kong. They are crafted using top quality materials and techniques: quartz movement, surgical grade stainless steel or ionized 18k gold plating, genuine mother-of-pearl dial, sapphire crystal glass and interchangeable leather or stainless steel bands.
The Abingdon Company’s complete line of aviation watches are available at http://theabingdonco.com/

Aviators Will Go To Pieces Over These Pieces

Here is a fun gift idea for the aviator. This delightful 300 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle features the neo-surrealist painting of contemporary Russian painter Sergey Tyukanov. The laser-cut puzzle pieces were designed by Seattle artist Maria Berg and include numerous realistic aviation-themed pieces including an airplane, helicopter, dirigible, satellite, rocket, space ship and more. This puzzle, made with teens and adults in mind, is made of layers of hard and soft woods that measure roughly one-quarter inch thick. The finished puzzle measures 11 by 14.5 inches.

Tyukanov Moon retails for $60 (with free shipping) and comes packaged in an unfinished pine wooden box. The puzzle and box have a handmade, artisanal feel. To order, visit the Artifact Puzzle website at www.artifactpuzzles.com/Tyukanov-Moon-Wooden-Jigsaw-Puzzle/M/Boo1W9YOAK.htm

ACR Satellite Detectible Emergency Beacons
A Great Stocking Suffer For The Pilot In Your Life

Give the pilot in your life the gift of safety! Fill their stocking this holiday season with one of the world’s smallest 406 MHz Personal Locator Beacons–ACR Electronics’ new ResQLink+™.

Small and light enough to hold comfortably in one hand yet powerful enough to guide rescuers to within 100 meters or less of your position in a life-threatening emergency, the ResQLink+ is the ultimate way out of trouble.

Since the inception of the Cospas-Sarsat Search and Rescue program in 1982, electronic beacons transmitting distress signals have resulted in more than 30,000 people rescued worldwide (more than 6,800 in the U.S.). 

Priced from the low $300s and available in two versions, the ResQLink and its self- buoyant version, the ResQLink+, are available nationally from a wide variety of dealers. To find one near you, go to http://www.acrartex.com/where-to-buy/.

New Website Features Aviation eBooks

For more than 15 years, Find-it Fast Books has offered quick reference manuals for anyone in aviation. From the beginning student to the professional dispatcher to the seasoned pilot or flight instructor – anyone, needing concise and complete reference resources of critical aviation weather and NOTAM flight planning data.

Now, Find-it Fast Books offers eBooks explaining the intricacies of aviation weather and NOTAMs. Pilots can use the search capabilities of bookmarks and hyperlinks to instantly decode contractions, interpret weather charts, and understand in flight weather hazard reports and forecasts. For complete information and access to these ebooks, www.pilotebooks.com