On 06/16/06 08:34, Dave Butler wrote:
Peter wrote:

I'd need to spend some serious time to get my head around these
possibilities. Do you Americans go on a GPS training course? I went on
a Honeywell one in 2002 but they never covered these "real life"
procedures. They just went through what the thing does.

Education is seriously lacking. There are a lot of pilots flying behind these
boxes who can't get beyond GO-TO. Good luck finding an instructor who really
knows. Of course the knowledge is to a great extent model specific. Knowing how
to use a Garmin tells you little about how to use a B-K. It's a mess. There are
a few instructors who specialize in this kind of instruction, but you have to
look for them.

Standby for a series of instructors to post "hire me, I know how to do it".

Dave

I've been "trained" on both the Garmin GNS-430 and KLN-94. It definitely
helps to see more than one box, as you begin to see the items that are
GPS related, rather than just Garmin/King related.

I've had instructors that seemed to really understand the GPS, and some
that knew little more than loading and executing approaches and using
Direct-To. Mostly, though, they seemed to have a real good understanding
of how to use the thing. Perhaps I've been lucky.

I expect having experience with more than one box will make it easier to
transition to any new box as well, but only time will tell.


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA