Synopses & Reviews
Every new small airline comes standard equipped with the same kind of flight computers and autopilots that you find in commercial passenger aircraft.This provides basic common-sense instruction in the use of cockpit automation equipment now available on smaller propeller aircraft. The entire use of cockpit automation is covered as it happens in an actual flight, from preflight, taxi-out, take-off, cruise, descent, and landing.General aviation cockpit automation equipment covered includes: IFR GPS, Autopilots, Electronic Flight Instruments, Multifunction Navigation Displays, Weather Radar, Ground Proximity Warning Systems, Traffic Collision Avoidance System, Radio Altimeters, Fuel Management Computers, Engine Monitors.
Synopsis
The fast-pace of cockpit technology, together with an accelerated demand for pilots, has created a gap between the skills taught in professional pilot training and the skills pilots are expected to have when they begin their professional flying careers. This book presents and explains the operation of cockpit automation accurately and in a manner that will appeal to pilots of all ages and experience levels. The entire use of cockpit automation is covered as it happens in an actual flight, from preflight, taxi-out, take-off, cruise, descent and landing. By explaining cockpit automation in terms of what commercial multiengine instrument pilots already know, this book will provide the reader with skills and concepts necessary to understand the modern airline cockpit.