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). When approaching an airport on a long base leg, they often struggle to determine the correct altitude for joining the final approach.

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Approach Runway Cockpit Aeronautical Decision-Making 85

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

How do the approaches differ from each other? Type of Guidance Instrument approaches offer two types of navigational guidance. Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. Vertical guidance lets you know youre too high or too low on your approach path. Thats up to you!

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Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

An autopilot and Aspen primary flight display reduce workload on long flights. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway. Planning Pays Off Our takeoff from Santa Fe’s runway 02 went exactly as planned. Phoenix Approach Control gave us a few delay vectors before turning us onto final approach.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52