BryanAV8R
Pre-takeoff checklist
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Bryan
assume I set my approach airspeed (for the 172K, I find 100MPH/90Kt most comfortable) before hitting the top of the approach and let the gfc manage the pitch?Just press the APR key on the GFC500. That should take you down on the glidepath if the approach is active on the 430W.
assume I set my approach airspeed (for the 172K, I find 100MPH/90Kt most comfortable) before hitting the top of the approach and let the gfc manage the pitch?
Thankfully, have a few days of VFR wx here to bore holes and figure out how it all goes together.
going to go out and try tomorrow... Having fun working with this. Makes life a whole lot easier. Only issue is that I'm kind of blazing a trail here in central NJ; not a lot of CFIs have hands-on with the GFC yet. I may actually find a niche when I get it all sorted out...
not a lot of CFIs have hands-on with the GFC yet.
Got to love when she says "vertical track" a few miles before the TOD. Then you know she is going to take you down the glide path.Well...been sorting out the 430W/GFC500 interplay. Got it to follow a flight plan...now to just figure out how to get it to follow the vertical approach LPV...if it can. But, you have to love straight lines between waypoints, right? (39N -> 47N -> N40 -> KDYL -> RNAV10 back into 39N)
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I fly with my buddy who is a captain for a major airline. He can hand fly super straight lines and maintain altitude just as good as my GFC500.Well...been sorting out the 430W/GFC500 interplay. Got it to follow a flight plan...now to just figure out how to get it to follow the vertical approach LPV...if it can. But, you have to love straight lines between waypoints, right? (39N -> 47N -> N40 -> KDYL -> RNAV10 back into 39N)
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The GFC500 is very similar to the GFC700 and the GFC700 has been out a while. Find someone that's had hands-on with a GFC700.not a lot of CFIs have hands-on with the GFC yet.
I fly with my buddy who is a captain for a major airline. He can hand fly super straight lines and maintain altitude just as good as my GFC500.
You can tell when I turn off my AP cause my "lines" are just not as straight as when I have the AP on even when I am flying the panel in IMC.
My buddy is a very skilled pilot and makes me realize how much experience he has.