AR Ignite

The retrofit glass panel market wowed all pilots in 2008 and 2009 with the announcement of the Aspen retrofit PFDs and MFDs and the Garmin G500 and G600 units.  Both companies will argue who came up with the idea first, but in the end, both were revolutionary.  The ability to get rid of an airplane’s […]

Instrument training involves a lot of hand flying.  Most of the airplanes these days (even Cessna 172s and Piper Archers) are equipped with autopilots, but it is vitally important during instrument training to know how to hand fly while scanning instruments.  This is known as Basic Attitude Instrument Flying.  This is important for two reasons.