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Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots—2025 edition

iPad Pilot News

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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Flying Visual Approaches? Synthetic Vision Pathways Can Help

Flying Magazine

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.

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Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots—2024 edition

iPad Pilot News

Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots—2024 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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Avionics and cockpit automation

Professional Pilot

Challenger 604, G-IV Contributing Writer Honeywell Primus Epic F ederal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 91.205 prescribes the minimum instruments and equipment necessary for flight. As the flying environment grows more complex such as under instrument flight rules (IFR) additional instrumentation becomes critical.

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Business jet flight decks

Professional Pilot

By Jake Carpenter Contributing Writer F rom rudimentary analog gauges to todays sophisticated, fully integrated avionics, the evolution of cockpit technologies has revolutionized how pilots interact with their aircraft. Pro Line Fusion provides the industrys first touch-control primary flight display (PFD).

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Top Features and Performance of the SR 22 Cirrus Aircraft

Airspeed Junkie

Advanced avionics in the SR22 include the Cirrus Perspective Touch by Garmin, which offers features such as 3D SafeTaxi, alert-linked checklists, and a digital autopilot with electronic stability protection (ESP), enhancing both safety and situational awareness for pilots.

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Flight vision systems

Professional Pilot

However, when Gulfstream introduced its Honeywell-made Synthetic Vision System – Primary Flight Display to business aircraft in 2005, it was the real thing. Yet suddenly, neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night would keep professional pilots on the ground – or divert them into it. Some of them were fatal.