olasek
Pattern Altitude
Flight Director or Highway-in-the-sky?
Whenever I read before in aviation literature about HITS I always thought it was the most impressive invention since the Gutenberg's type. But last night while playing with G1000 trainer I decided to hand-fly the same approach (with full procedure turn, etc.) twice - using the FD and then HITS. At the end I had little difficulty to judge which method was easier for me - FD. While using FD my corrections had to be much smaller and my heart beat was lower too throughout the approach. In my opinion FD works better on our current two dimensional PFDs, perhaps one day in the future if we have 3D holographic PFDs then HITS would win. What is your opinion?
Whenever I read before in aviation literature about HITS I always thought it was the most impressive invention since the Gutenberg's type. But last night while playing with G1000 trainer I decided to hand-fly the same approach (with full procedure turn, etc.) twice - using the FD and then HITS. At the end I had little difficulty to judge which method was easier for me - FD. While using FD my corrections had to be much smaller and my heart beat was lower too throughout the approach. In my opinion FD works better on our current two dimensional PFDs, perhaps one day in the future if we have 3D holographic PFDs then HITS would win. What is your opinion?
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