TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
Hand-flew some instrument approaches in the G1000 today, and I'm usually a pretty decent stick, but quite frankly, my altitude control SUCKED today. I was able to capture and track the ILS, localizer or GPS inbound course just fine, but I was +/- 200 during my hold, even had one excursion of 300+??! What was that all about. I got it under control with better attention to power and pitch and scan towards the end of the session, but I think I need to go try that again...
The new firmware on the G1000 has a couple neat features I enjoyed... callouts on the PFD of the minimums for each leg of the loaded approach, and it calls "minimums" when you reach minimums (hand-set on the Timer page). Also, a magenta diamond on the outside of the HSI shows you exactly where you need to put the course line to correct for crosswind. I'd always used a comparison of desired track versus actual track, and still do, but this made it super simple, not only for the approach, but also when tracking in the hold (inbound or outbound) to parallel or track the course.
The new firmware on the G1000 has a couple neat features I enjoyed... callouts on the PFD of the minimums for each leg of the loaded approach, and it calls "minimums" when you reach minimums (hand-set on the Timer page). Also, a magenta diamond on the outside of the HSI shows you exactly where you need to put the course line to correct for crosswind. I'd always used a comparison of desired track versus actual track, and still do, but this made it super simple, not only for the approach, but also when tracking in the hold (inbound or outbound) to parallel or track the course.
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