Hank Gibson from Texas Top Aviation will be presenting a seminar on flying Garmin instrument approaches with the different Garmin GPS units. Whether you have a Garmin 530/430 unit, a Garmin GTN 750/650 unit, or a Garmin G1000, all will be discussed. You’ll walk away with some tips and tricks, plus a better understanding of…
The Garmin GTN 750 is an awesome piece of equipment. Garmin tried to make the user interface with the touch screen as simple as possible (though there still is a bit of a learning curve when moving up from a Garmin 530W). Garmin also integrated several key features that the 530W did not have that…
Technology has made our job as pilots simpler, streamlined, and safer. With all the new GPS & autopilot technology that seems to come out every month, flying an airplane is getting easier every day (and when I say flying, I mean programming!). I can’t tell you the last time I actually used a VOR for…
A Cirrus is an electric airplane. There are no vacuum pumps and therefore no vacuum driven instruments. The Klapmeier brothers did this on purpose, trying to make it a modern airplane. No vacuum systems means no vacuum pump failures, hence there is a lower likelihood of instrument failures in IMC. What Cirrus did instead was…
Free training? Yes, you heard correctly. Last fall, Cirrus released a program called Cirrus Embark. The Cirrus Embark program offers 3 Free Days of Training to new purchasers of used Cirrus aircraft. The 3 Days is equivalent to the Cirrus VFR Transition Training Course. Previously, Cirrus offered free factory training to anyone who purchased a…
