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Garmin 430
I have a VFR only 172 and I am considering IFR training.
I am looking for the most practical way to make my plane IFR certified and useful. At first glance, it appears to me that the Garmin 430 provides a LOT of useful information for relatively not much money. I have 2 questions though.... to use the glideslope / VOR / LOC functions of the 430, do I have to have a glide slope indicator and VOR indicator or are these bits of information displayed on hte 430 unit? Is this one piece of equipment enough to enable my 172 to be instrument certified? I realize that I will be needing backup instruments to reliably fly in IMC, that will come with time...what I need now is training and learned proficiency. Thanks, Jamie A. Landers PP-ASEL |
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Garmin 430
"Mark Hansen" wrote in message ...
The 430 does not have a glide slope. It is not certified for use in precision approaches. It does have a page that will show you the CDI for tracking VOR and Localizers, etc. -- Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane Garmin says the GNS 430 has a glide slope. See the second sentence of the first paragraph at: http://www.garmin.com/products/gns430/ |
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Garmin 430
The 430 does not have a glide slope. It is not certified for use in
precision approaches. It does have a page that will show you the CDI for tracking VOR and Localizers, etc. It has full ILS capability once you provide the CDI unit. I have done my instrument training with that one unit only. Ron Lee |
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Garmin 430
Mitty wrote:
Garmin has a free simulator and free downloads of the manuals from their web site. Get the sim and the manuals and you can learn the box in maybe 5 hours. Enough to get started flying with it and certainly enough to evaluate it thoroughly. You should have someone who knows the 430 in the right seat for the first few flights IMHO. I cannot emphasize enough how much their simulator helped me get comfortable with the 430. Not only can you set it up to initialize from your home airport, you can goose the throttle all the way up to 600 knots so the enroute portion of your practice flights can be accelerated. Since I only fly rental aircraft these days, the radios seem to vary widely in each one available to me. One thing that has become almost universal among the rental fleet where I live is the Garmin 430. I had been out of flying for almost 15 years and learned on steam gauges. The Garmin was very intimidating initially... but the simulator fixed that. And it's free! http://www.garmin.com/software/simulators/TRAIN430.EXE -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN VE |
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NDB approaches not *quite* dead yet
Mark Hansen wrote:
Basically, if you don't have a glide slope receiver, you won't be able to fly any precision approaches. If you don't have an ADF, you won't be able to fly any NDB approaches (not that there are that many left). They're disappearing, but they're not quite dead yet. I count 29 in New York and New Jersey alone -- I don't know how often they're actually used, but at least they're still publishing the plates in the current cycle: - KBGM NDB 34 - KBUF NDB 5 - KBUF NDB 23 - KCDW NDB or GPS 22 - KCDW NDB or GPS-A - KFRG NDB 1 - 1B1 NDB-A - KISP NDB or GPS 6 - NY0 NDB 10 - NY0 NDB 28 - KNEL NDB 24 - N07 NDB or GPS 1 - 06N NDB 26 - KMIV NDB or GPS 14 - KMGJ NDB 3 - KMSV NDB or GPS 15 - KMMU NDB or GPS 5 - KMMU NDB or GPS 23 - KIAG NDB 28R - KPEO NDB 28 - KPTD NDB 24 - KSCH NDB 22 - KSCH NDB 28 - KTTN NDB or GPS 6 - KUCA NDB or GPS 15 - KELZ NDB 28 - KGTB NDB or GPS 15 (military) - KGTB NDB or GPS 33 (military) - KHPN NDB 16 All the best, David |
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Garmin 430
Forget the 430, get a 480.
The 480 is WAAS certified out of the box. Garmin has been promising WAAS for the 430 since they started selling them. |
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Garmin 430
The 430 does indeed have a glideslope receiver. You will have to use a
Garmin indicator to make it work. It is a great box, and second only to the 530 in functionality. I have one of each in two different planes. |
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