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Subject:Re: learning GPS approaches ... Ouch
From:Stan Gosnell
Date:Wed Oct 09 23:59:41 2002
"mrwallace" wrote in
news:0F6p9.19084$m92.4501332@news1.news.adelphia.net:

> Incorporating a GPS display into my IFR scan was difficult
> at best. I have flown for years with a KNS 80 King silver
> crown panel and HSI. We installed a complete Garmin
> 530/430 panel in our 210 and my instrument flying went down
> the drain.

ISTM that the solution is to couple the GPS into the HSI. This
is certainly doable, as almost all our IFR helicopters are set
up that way. A push-push switch selects GPS or VOR for the HSI
display. That way you dont have to look at the GPS at all for
nav information. A small panel has all the warning lights -
waypoint, approach, etc along with the switch, so everything is
in the pilots normal field of view. We have one oddball
without this, & its a pain to fly even VFR.

--
Regards,

Stan

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