Glass Panel Minute

Lately, I’ve been hearing of a number of IFR clearances where the pilot receives a DME Fix off of a VOR Radial as part of the IFR routing, especially going back and forth between Austin and Dallas for low altitude airplanes.  The initial panic sets in of, “Wait, what?  You’re giving me a VOR radial? …

Garmin has lots of cool stuff that help pilots.  One of those is their Flight Stream.  A Flight Stream is a bluetooth connection between the airplane’s GPS unit (it works with any Garmin GPS, from a 430 all the way up through a Garmin G5000) and any portable device, either Apple (Foreflight or Garmin Pilot)…

In a previous Glass Panel Minute, I wrote about how to set up a hold in Foreflight.  In this week’s Glass Panel Minute, I am continuing on with the holding theme as we are going to go through the steps to holding on the Garmin 530/430 units. The Garmin 530 and 430 units were revolutionary…

As a pilot, I hate to do math.  Before Foreflight, it was a toss up of which was worse, doing math in my head or using the manual E6B.  After Foreflight, my math and E6B skills have deteriorated somewhat.  Even worse than doing math while pre-flight planning, is doing math in my head, in the…

For most GA instrument pilots, the event that causes the most surprise and stress is an unexpected missed approach.  Don’t we all just make the automatic assumption when we listen to the METAR and hear the ceilings reported above the MDA or DA that we will see the runway?  With that glass half full mindset,…