PPL training in a Cirrus.
10-10-2007, 12:29 PM
#11
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2006
Position: Reclined seat
Posts: 629
Personally, I flew in a SR20 for my private and currently fly the same for my instrument training. I agree that some people can be overwhelmed and love the fancy electronics, but I looked ahead and realized what I will be flying in the future, so I shut them out. A big problem comes with the partial panel training, as you can only turn the entire PFD off in flight and not specific information.
For my private course, I kept the MFD on the map page for the beginning of my training to get situational awareness, but by the time I was 1/2 way into the training, I switched over to the engine page and used the sectional for situational awareness. To this day, I am still doing the same. For the fancy navigation, I use the GNS 430 to input the VOR freq, tune it, identify it, and twist to the desired radial that I want. For the rest of the GPS, I setup the navaid for DME information (BTL instead of KBTL). For the approaches, I don't load the procedure approach into the GPS, I rather use intersections from other navaids to identify where I am at. This is the same with the private when I used 2 fixed to identify my location.
In my own opinion, I feel that the training is no different, but it all depends on how YOU and your instructor both train on the glass aircraft. I tend to do everything old fashion with new technology, because you never know when new technology will fail and your left with the old school systems.
For my private course, I kept the MFD on the map page for the beginning of my training to get situational awareness, but by the time I was 1/2 way into the training, I switched over to the engine page and used the sectional for situational awareness. To this day, I am still doing the same. For the fancy navigation, I use the GNS 430 to input the VOR freq, tune it, identify it, and twist to the desired radial that I want. For the rest of the GPS, I setup the navaid for DME information (BTL instead of KBTL). For the approaches, I don't load the procedure approach into the GPS, I rather use intersections from other navaids to identify where I am at. This is the same with the private when I used 2 fixed to identify my location.
In my own opinion, I feel that the training is no different, but it all depends on how YOU and your instructor both train on the glass aircraft. I tend to do everything old fashion with new technology, because you never know when new technology will fail and your left with the old school systems.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
