Flying Magazine
JUNE 3, 2025
If you’ve flown in a Garmin glass cockpit with synthetic vision, then you may have seen the Pathways feature, a series of constantly moving rectangles on the primary flight display (PFD). However, when flying an approach, the width is 700 feet or half of the full-scale CDI deflection, whichever is less.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Well, one important thing youll need to know is RNAV approaches. These approaches use GPS to help you land and offer more flexibility than traditional systems like ILS. In this guide, you’ll learn how RNAV approaches work, the different types available, and tips to make them feel natural and straightforward.
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Pilot Institute
JULY 4, 2025
When the time of closest approach falls below certain levels, TCAS issues alerts. Newer glass cockpits may show this guidance as a flight director cue on the primary flight display (PFD) Aural Alerts: A synthesized voice will call out “ Traffic, traffic ” for a TA, and explicit instructions like “ Climb, climb ” or “ Descend, descend now! ”
AV Web
MAY 4, 2025
One of its main, parallel north-south runways is closed for construction, and a recent handing off of a large swath of approach responsibilities to Philadelphia has combined with some staffing woes to make a mess of things (See Russ Niless update on the details.) We were about 20 minutes from landing when I caught the first whiff of trouble.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
These cockpits combine all traditional instruments on multi-function displays (MFDs). This is called the Primary Flight Display (PFD). We usually receive them before important phases of flight. For example, approaching a selected altitude. However, many will look different.
AV Web
JUNE 10, 2025
Since Safe Flight invented the stall warning system lift detection system in the 1940s, its AoA tech leverages a similar wing leading-edge sensor for AoA and speed indexing. That’s a photo I captured of Safe Flight’s second-gen system from a demo flight on approach to Waterbury Oxford Airport in Connecticut in the company’s Cessna.
Pilot's Life Blog
JUNE 18, 2025
In terms of cockpit layout and handling, Piper is often praised for its more “airline-style” approach. Current Piper Archers and Seminoles typically include Garmin G1000 or G1000 NXi glass cockpits, offering integrated primary flight displays, multifunction displays, autopilot interfaces, synthetic vision, and ADS-B compliance.
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