Guides
Short, plain-English explanations of the things pilots look up. Each one leads into a free interactive tool that shows it happening, so you can read the idea and then see it.
Flying the aeroplane
- Stalling: the warning signs and the recoveryThe critical angle, the symptoms before the break, the stall speed in a turn and with flap, and the standard recovery.Read the guide →
- The visual circuit, leg by legUpwind, crosswind, downwind, base and final: what happens on each leg, the checks, the calls and the drift.Read the guide →
Navigation
- QNH, QFE and standard pressure explainedThe three pressure settings, the transition altitude and level, and what the altimeter reads when the wrong one is set.Read the guide →
- Drift and wind correction: flying the planned trackHeading against track, drift and the wind correction angle, and the 1 in 60 rule for getting back on course.Read the guide →
- How to use the E6B wind sideThe wind triangle on the flight computer, in order: disc, wind dot, course, slide, and the answer.Read the guide →
- VOR navigation: radials, the CDI and which way to turnRadials, the OBS and CDI, the TO/FROM flag, reverse sensing, and intercepting and tracking a radial in wind.Read the guide →
Instrument flying
- How to fly a DME arcJoining the arc, the ten-degree method, keeping the range in wind, and the lead radial that takes you onto final.Read the guide →
- Flying an ILS approach, down to the minimumsLocaliser and glide path, the capture, the stable approach, the decision altitude, RVR and the go-around.Read the guide →
- Moving from round dials to a glass cockpitA practical conversion guide: what changes, what catches pilots out, how to practise, and how to stay ahead of the automation.Read the guide →
The Garmin G1000
- G1000 basics: softkeys, page groups and the FMS knobThe beginner's way in: the controls, softkey levels, page groups, the MENU key and entering data with the FMS knob.Read the guide →
- How to read the G1000 PFDEvery part of the primary flight display: the tapes, baro setting, HSI, CDI source, bearing pointers, inset map and minimums.Read the guide →
- G1000 autopilot modes explainedEngaging it, the flight director, lateral and vertical modes, FLC against VS, VNV descents and reading the mode annunciations.Read the guide →
- How to enter a flight plan and go direct-to on the G1000The FMS knob and data entry, direct-to, creating, storing and activating a plan, editing en route and trip planning.Read the guide →
- Flying an ILS on the G1000Loading and activating the approach, the localiser, CDI source, minimums, flying it coupled and the go-around.Read the guide →
- Flying an RNAV (LPV) approach on the G1000Loading the approach, integrity and RAIM, the glidepath, LOW ALT alerts and flying it on the autopilot.Read the guide →
- G1000 failures: reversionary mode and what to doA display failure, losing heading, attitude or air data, GPS loss and dead reckoning, and radio failures.Read the guide →
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