Garmin 430/530 ground school SF Bay Area.

I hope this is not inappropriate for this group.


In-depth Garmin 430 training course - SF Bay area

Location
Hampton Inn - across the 580 freeway from the Livermore airport 9-12,
1-5 Sat Oct 14th.
$100 (refundable) until Oct 8th, $150 after that. Paypal to
ed_williamsATcompuserve.com or email me to send personal check or to
ask questions.

Instructor
Ed Williams - CFII, ATP, Garmin 430 owner
Website: http://williams.best.vwh.net

Objective
After this course the student will be familiar with GPS navigation in
general, and in particular, be able to use the Garmin 430 for IFR (and
VFR!) navigation. The Garmin 530 (and G1000) GPS units have very
similar interfaces and so a transition to them would require minimal
differences training. Major emphasis is on the efficient use of the
"flight plan" to navigate as desired or as directed by ATC.
In the latter part of the course, it is assumed that the students
are either instrument-rated or at least have some familiarity with
instrument procedures such as departures, approaches and holding.

Materials
The course will be a mix of lecture material and directed practice
using the Garmin 430 simulator (for PCs) available on the Garmin
website. I would like to have at least one simulator for every two
students... If you have California enroute and approach charts, bring
them along, too.

Content (includes)
GPS basics and IFR requirements.
Simulator usage.
430 NavCom usage
GPS knob and button functions
"Direct to" (D-)
Nearest airport
Entering, saving and restoring flight plans.
Flight plan editing - delete, modify and insert waypoint - SIDs, STARs
and IAPs
OBS and leg modes
Flying the plan
Use of D- and "activate leg"
When to load and when to activate an IFR approach
Procedure turns and "holds-in-lieu", Unpublished holds.
DME arcs
Missed approaches - when to unSUSPend - course from fix legs
Monitoring ILS, LOC etc. approaches.
RAIM and approach requirements
Database pages - frequency and runway data etc.
Aux pages - fuel planning, E6B, etc
VNAV - crossing restrictions
User waypoints and +MAP
Text-only and other tricky ODPs.
Substitution of DME and NDB by GPS

Ed is highly qualified to present such a course.