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Garmin has updated the free Garmin PC Trainer Suite for Windows. Download and details here. The new version, dated June 7, 2024, simulates: As far as I know, this is the first version of the simulation to support two GPS/NAV units simultaneously, if you select one of the new Aircraft Trainers from the main screen. The available airframes Continue reading "Garmin Updates the Free PC Trainer Suite"
My article about partial-panel IFR flight with modern electronic instruments, complemented with EFBs, is in the April 2024 issue of AOPA Pilot magazine. If you re an AOPA member, you can read it online here.
Here s video from a recent IFR proficiency flight from Boeing Field (KBFI) to Arlington, WA (KAWO). After a departure in IMC, I flew the RNAV RWY 34 approach to LPV minimums at KAWO, using the GFC 600 autopilot for the approach and the TOGA feature for a coupled missed approach. Notice the glory as I Continue reading "Cloud Surfing and Low IFR Approach"
To learn how bearing pointers can help you develop and maintain situational awareness, follow this link to my article in the September 2023 issue of AOPA Pilot magazine.
My article about using VNAV is in the August issue of AOPA Flight Training magazine, here. I tried to address the most common questions and mixups that I see when folks use VNAV while flying approaches. To see VNAV in action, watch this video at my YouTube channel.
The FAA Instrument Procedures Information Gateway now includes the new RNAV approaches to runways 14R and 32L at Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle that were published on August 10, 2023. Boeing Field management contracted with Hughes Aerospace Corporation to develop these approaches, but they are public use, and the charts appear in the databases in Continue reading "New RNAV (GPS) Approaches at…
I recently ran across the RNAV (GPS) RWY 23 N Approach approach at Pullman, WA (KPUW). Note the N in the procedure title. This approach appears in the procedures listed for KPUW in the GTN 750Xi in the Garmin PC Trainer Suite. But you won t find a chart for this approach because it s a Special Instrument Flight Procedure Continue reading "Approaches with M, N, etc. in the Title"
The May 2023 issue of AOPA Pilot magazine includes PBN Bingo, an article I wrote to help pilots understand the key acronyms, abbreviations, and other terms associated with performance based navigation. I also have a presentation on the topic on my YouTube channel: Unscrambling RNAV, RNP, and Other Chart Naming Conventions and Notes.
Charts for instrument procedures include a lot of information, and IFR pilots learn to brief departures, arrivals, and approaches as part of the preparation for takeoff, descent, and landing. Often, however, those briefings aren’t especially effective, because the pilot or crew just recites data on the chart and doesn’t actually prepare to fly the procedure Continue reading "Briefing IFR…
I ve been testing the latest system software in my Garmin avionics and checking out the A36 after its annual inspection. A break in the weather allowed a scenic VFR flight from Boeing Field (KBFI) to Tillamook, OR (KTMK) and a practice RNAV RWY 13 approach using the automation available with the Garmin GTN 500Txi, GTN Continue reading "Scenic Approach at Tillamook, OR"