As a flight instructor, I make it to a lot of airports throughout the course of a year. I like going new places, landing at different airports, and finding new challenges. But, my goal for each flight is to find some place good to eat. That could either be an airport diner (Brenham, TX for example, 11R) or some place close by that can be reached by a golf cart (Hard Eight BBQ in Stephenville, TX (KSEP); more on that later).
You have finally upgraded from an Avidyne equipped aircraft to a Garmin glass panel. Admittedly, there are a lot more buttons, but yet so much more capability. You spend the first several weeks after your transition training flying around, mostly VFR, getting the hang of things. At the end of the month, you turn on the MFD and see that your NavData is expired.
Yasmina Platt, Regional Manager for AOPA, joined several other students on Tuesday at the NASA Altitude Chamber for a hypoxia training session. She wrote a review on her experience, found here on the AOPA Blog. High Performance Aviation sponsors several Altitude Chamber events per year. Please visit the Contact Us page to inquire.
I was taking a peek into a Cirrus a few weeks back, probably a 2002 or 2003 SR22. A quick glance at the panel and the GPS’s showed me everything was as it should be: 2 Avidyne screens, 2 Garmin 430s, the S-TEC 55x autopilot. The pilot offered to take me for a demo flight to show off his new GPS. I thought, well, I’m pretty good with a 430, maybe he wants some tips or something.
Question: Want all the benefits of those brand new glass cockpits? Don’t want to buy a brand new
aircraft? Even better, want it to work with your existing Garmin avionics?
Answer: A retrofit Garmin G500/G600. You get to keep your airplane, your Garmin GPS, and still get the
benefits of a glass cockpit.