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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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Hey, FAA … How About Some AoA Money?

AV Web

The system I flew with used an indexer mounted on the glareshield as you see in the photo, but it’s easy to interface with a primary flight display in both new and retrofit avionics. For an OEM standard, I think the system can work well.

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Hawaii Mars Taxiing Around

Vintage Aviation News

For more information and to support this effort, visit www.bcam.net Cockpit view of the modernized cockpit in Hawaii Mars , put in mid 2000s, note the Garmin EFIS with vertical terrain depiction on the primary flight display and the full terrain map on the navigation display.

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Blog: Surviving the Newark ATC Chaos

AV Web

After smoothly clearing customs at ATL, we boarded our Boeing 737-900 for the 10:50 pm flight to EWR. According to the pretend (passenger-seat) Primary Flight Display (which is actually pretty cool), we even had a tailwind. All good no notice of any delays, despite some scary accounting of what was going on at Newark.

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Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots—2025 edition

iPad Pilot News

The AC recommends using position data from an installed GNSS source. Portable equipment is more likely to experience signal blockage, signal degradation, and performance degradation.

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The Pitot-Static System: How It Works

Pilot Institute

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. Both the pitot tube and static port are connected to instruments through tiny pipes that carry the air pressure readings. Cool, right?

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What are the Key Parts of a Plane?

WayMan

Modern cockpits often feature a glass cockpit large digital displays that replace older analog instruments. In pilot training, students learn to interpret readings from the Primary Flight Display (PFD) and Multi-Function Display (MFD). These show everything from airspeed and altitude to heading and navigation data.

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