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Hey Bruce,
I am trying to find all the information that you’ve written on the Garmin GTN 750. How would I go about locating that information?
I found the Flying an Approach with the Garmin GTN 750 tutorial that you had written very helpful.
Thanks,
Dustin Melton
dustin.melton@gmail.com
You can find all of the blog posts that mention the GTN 750 by searching for “GTN 750” (or just “GTN”) in the search box at the top of any page of my blog.
Bruce,
I fly in the Columbia River Basin, and today leaving Pullman, WA, we got availed by a Horizon flight, of the ATITAPA, 3 times on a visual straight in. Why do “Commercial Pilots”, supposedly professionals, continually use this phrase? It drives me crazy. I would get a shoulder bump from CFI if I even thought about using this phrase. My local airport frequency is shared with about 6 airports in the area, and almost without fail a regional airline makes this call into Wenatchee airport. We have started to put together a drinking game in the hangar just waiting for the “Any traffic in the area…”
I’m sure that pilots who use the phrase think they’re being helpful and vigilant. But as the blog post explains, making that call doesn’t help.
Hello, I’ve been debating over this question with a few people and don’t know what the right answer is.
On a garmin 750, if you were doing an ils approach with a good autopilot and the missed called for a a climb straight out, and then a right turn direct somewhere, when you go missed, you set your altitude pre select to the final missed hight, but would you go into Nav mode right away for the missed? Does the 750 know when you hit the certain height for the missed when to turn, or is it your flight director that knows when you hit the certain altitude before it will turn it. Because In the garmin simulator with a missed like that, it tells you to turn right away for the missed when you’re actually supposed to climb to a certain height and then turn. So would the autopilot or flight director know to go straight out before it made the turn for you? Or is it the 750 that knows that, so you don’t get in the situation where it turns you right away even though you’re supposed to climb first
Kinda confusing how to word this, hope it kinda makes sense.
If the GTN has a baro input (e.g., from an air data computer via a G500 or G5), it won’t provide course guidance until you reach the charted altitude. You will see HDG LEG on the HSI display until you reach the minimum altitude for a turn. The same thing happens on a departure procedure where you must climb before turning. Garmin has published a helpful document, “GNS 400(W)/500(W) Series and GTN 6XX/7XX Series Instrument Procedure Leg Awareness” that helps you understand how different leg types work in their navigators (http://static.garmin.com/pumac/190-02052-00_1.pdf). The key is understanding how the GTN is connected in your installation, and how it interfaces with your PFD and autopilot. Those details are in the AFM Supplement for the equipment in your aircraft.
Hi Bruce!
I’m using your Scenario-based Training book to learn to fly. I’m using X-Plane ver. 11.5. I tried to load one of the situation files and I got an error. Do you have planes up updating the situation files to the latest version of X-Plane?
Thanks for producing a great book for learning to fly!
Please see: https://bruceair.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/more-about-x-plane-situations-and-scenario-based-training/
Bruce,
Renton (KRNT) will have periods of “ATC Zero” on most days for at least the next month. According to the NOTAM, the tower will be out of service and Class D service unavailable. It’s a part time tower, and the A/FD specifies the times when the airspace is Class D and when it’s Class G. But the NOTAM doesn’t say anything about it also going to Class G during these periods. The NOTAM does say to contact Seattle Approach.
So, what’s your take on this? Are we required to be talking to Approach to enter the Class D during these periods? Do we have to reach them from the ground to get a takeoff clearance?
When similar situations arose at other Class D airports–most notably at Chicago Midway (KMDW), the airport revered to Class E. Everyone self-announced, just as at a non-towered airport. Even Southwest Airlines pilots were making taxi, takeoff, and landing announcements on the CTAF. Absent conflicting information in the NOTAM or in further notices, I would treat KRNT as a non-towered airport, just as you do when the tower is closed at night.
WOW… just re-discovered your page and website! Bravo Bruce .. so many good tips, articles and information. Keep up the outstanding work for GA and pilots alike
TD
Hi Bruce, I got a book “Scenario-based training with X-Plane and MSFS”, however Wiley seems to have pull the plug for the download of the files to the book for both X-Plane & MSFS. Wonder is there an option to obtain them.
Please see this link: https://bruceair.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/more-about-x-plane-situations-and-scenario-based-training/
Hi Bruce, what about the Microsoft Flight Simulator resources that you provide in associated with the book when they are published. I am mostly using the legacy Microsoft Flight Simulator X for my hobby not the X-Plane. The FSX is pretty much stable as it does not update after the SP1 and I do not use the latest MS release. Thanks again for your response.
I recommend that you use the information for each lesson to set up the flights in either FSX or X-Plane. It’s been some 12 years since that book was published, and it’s impossible to maintain those resources given all the changes in hardware and software since then.
Hi Bruce. I seem to remember that in a previous response you indicated that there is an excel file containing the basic setups for the situations in your Scenario-Based Training book. If I’m remembering correctly, is the excel file still available? Thank you for such a great resource!
You can download an Excel workbook here: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AneE1ZO1pQoRhZhDoik28scWpIftNQ?e=0KmgnR
Thank you!