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The Aviator’s Academy exists to help aircraft owners and pilots increase instrument proficiency in their glass panels. Our ever-growing list of free resources serve to feed the learner in you as you continue to grow in your skills and knowledge as a glass panel pilot.

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INTERVIEW WITH HANK GIBSON: TRAINING THE TRAINER

Joe sits down to discuss training the trainer with Hank Gibson, a Cirrus and fellow PA46 instructor. Hank also shares plans for his upcoming company which will be fully unveiled at Oshkosh.

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Just Plane Radio 10-1-22

This week the JPR crew hunker down for hurricane Ian. Plus another cool way for you to make the world a better place with your aircraft.

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GLASS PANEL MINUTE

The Glass Panel Minute is a bi-monthly series where we share quick and helpful tips to improve your instrument proficiency in your glass panel aircraft.

• Autopilot Coupled Missed Approaches
  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 …

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• Holding in Foreflight
  Unpublished holds are never enjoyable.  When ATC gives a pilot holding instructions, it’s often times unexpected and typically, the pilot doesn’t have a whole lot of …

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• The Key To Unlocking the Avidyne IFD Flight Plan
  The Avidyne IFD units are very well thought out GPS units.  Avidyne’s approach of simple to use and easy to install was implemented well with the …

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• Setting Minimums on a Legacy Garmin G500
  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 …

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• The Garmin Flight Path Marker
  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 …

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• A CFI Manifesto
  After 8,500 hours of total flight time, with at least 3/4 of that time giving instruction, I officially qualify as a career instructor.  My journey into …

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