Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
Deciding between a traditional round-dial cockpit and a modern glass cockpit can be a big deal for some pilots. Round-dials teach you hands-on skills, while glass cockpits use fancy technology to help you see what’s going on around you. Learning these differences will help you pick the right kind of cockpit for you.
Professional Pilot
APRIL 3, 2025
While it may be common to find some very spartan instrumentation on an open cockpit biplane at the local fly-in, the level of complexity increases exponentially in turboprops and jet cockpits. Technically, even a cockpit lighting rheostat qualifies as avionics, but pilots typically associate the term with advanced technology.
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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). Candidly, Ive never liked Pathways, so I was delighted to recently find a good use for them.
WayMan
JUNE 16, 2025
” Multi-Function Display (MFD): Offers a flexible display of navigation paths, weather data, engine metrics, checklists, and other relevant flight information. As aviation electronics evolve, the underlying principles of flight, acquired from exposure to basic aircraft instrumentation, are ageless.
Pilot Institute
JULY 4, 2025
Pilots constantly watch out of the cockpit windows, and air traffic control monitors traffic in the airspace. Pilots themselves scan for traffic by looking out the cockpit windows. The system will announce “ Traffic, traffic, ” and on your cockpit display the intruding aircraft will be highlighted (often in yellow).
Pilot Institute
DECEMBER 12, 2024
These two simple features power three of the most important cockpit instruments. If you’re in a modern, fancy airplane with glass primary flight displays instead of round dials, then it uses something called an Air Data Computer to show these readings. This setup is called the pitot-static system. Cool, right?
iPad Pilot News
MAY 23, 2025
Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots2025 edition iPad Pilot News The best reading is in some Advisory Circulars from the FAA. Each year we publish a plain-language review of the FARs and Advisory Circulars pertaining to the use of iPads and electronic flight bags in the cockpit.
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