![]() Of course as GA flyers we will have the option of choosing-but I wonder if some of us who learned on steam gauges may find ourselves missing those challenging days at some point. There were also questions about using terrain awareness being provided by the gps altitude-which I believe on this unit is now not waas enabled and therefore could be off several 100 ft.)I found myself thinking what a great innovation in safety this system is-but also thinking sadly that GA flying in the future may be not much different than commercial airliners-the pilot being a primarily a systems manager and doing very little flying. (A few very good questions were asked-such as the vsi doesn't start indicating until 150 fpm-a question was asked about holding straight and level manually if one doesn't get small indications until 150 fpm either direction is indicated- I don't think they answered that one. They said 5 out of 6 hours of training at Cessna will be on autopilot. ![]() A great panel-but amoung a few other things that I found interesting was that Cessna encourages and recommends using the autopilot almost from takeoff to landing. ![]() All relevant Flight Deck controls, panels, knobs, switches and other components found in the actual aircraft. I went to a seminar on the G1000 a few days ago at Oshkosh that was presented by Cessna. The ELITE Cessna 208B Grand Caravan Flight Simulation Training Device is a single seat, autopilot and replica Garmin G1000 equipped Flight Simulation Training Device capable of representing almost all aspects of the operational envelope.
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