Search Results for: Garmin G1000

Displays fail. The following is derived from maintenance facility submissions to the FAA’s Service Difficulty Reports database.

Robert, my student, called me the other day. He bases his Cirrus SR22T out of Eagle Colorado (KEGE). He wanted to know if I was interested in attempting some of the maneuvers he had found in the Pilot’s Workshop document called the Pilot Exercise Program. It’s in a PDF for $49 or $69 if you […]

While the Pilot’s Operating Handbook shows VMC for the aircraft, the VMC in flight varies depending on many conditions. It’s similar to the published stall speed vs. the stall speed for your current load factor. Remember, you can stall the aircraft at any airspeed but only at one angle of attack. The same is true […]

A number of fascinating technology updates have emerged in business aviation recently, particularly related to avionics.

These reports of near midair collisions, NMACs, should be deeply frightening to any pilot. The pilots’ experiences strongly suggest more vigilance and, ultimately, increased safety. Nose-to-Nose The pilot briefly looked down to scan the instruments and gauges. When she looked up, there was an airplane right in front of her—she could see faces, wheels … […]

The flight school has a fleet of 43 Cessna 172, which is its exclusive single-engine airplane.

Save time and money—and maybe your life—with some simulator experience.

You can think of your sim like a desktop operating system: By itself, it’s not extremely useful; only when you install third-party applications on top of it are you truly enabled to do real work. Same is true for X-Plane. The fact is most simulators rely on a vast array of third-party add-ons to provide […]

Flight-critical information for IFR flying includes attitude, heading, airspeed, and altitude. Navigation information is high on the needs list but is not as critical as the previous items. The same is true for communications. The criticality generally follows the doctrine of aviate, navigate, and then communicate. Likewise, the FAA system safety analysis (required for equipment […]

Holds are the bane of many pilots’ existence. The variety of helpful and not-so-helpful tips, tricks, and other “aids” tells us how big a problem it is. Fortunately, most of us eventually figure out that published holds are easy. A picture tells a thousand words. Unless we are a little OCD about that 70/20 section, […]