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  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Automation › Information Management

    folders on a desktop and some within a hierarchy. The first critical information management skill for flying with advanced avionics is to understand the system at a conceptual level. Remembering how the system is organized helps the pilot manage ... important to understanding that learning knob-and-dial procedures is not enough. Learning more about how advanced avionics systems work leads to better memory for procedures and allows pilots to solve problems they have not seen before. There are also…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Understand the Platform › Managing Aircraft Automation

    computer to execute. Another 15 percent of all GA accidents occurs during takeoff and initial climb. An advanced avionics safety issue identified by the FAA concerns pilots who apparently develop an unwarranted over-reliance in their avionics and the aircraft ... significant factor in the GA accident record of high performance aircraft used for cross-country flight. The FAA advanced avionics aircraft safety study found that poor decision-making seems to afflict new advanced avionics pilots at a rate higher than…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Information Management › Automation Management

    Automation Management Advanced avionics offer multiple levels of automation, from strictly manual flight to highly automated flight. No one level of automation is appropriate for all flight situations, but in order to avoid potentially dangerous distractions when flying with advanced ... avionics, the pilot must know how to manage the course deviation indicator (CDI), the navigation source, and the autopilot. It is important for a pilot to know the peculiarities of the particular automated system being used. This ensures the pilot…

  • Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Automation Management

    purpose of basic flight without automation is to ensure the pilot can hand fly the maneuver when necessary. Advanced avionics offer multiple levels of automation, from strictly manual flight to highly automated flight. No one level of automation is appropriate ... flight situations, but to avoid potentially dangerous distractions when flying with advanced avionics, the pilot must know how to manage the course indicator, the navigation source, and the autopilot. It is important for a pilot to know the peculiarities…

  • Chapter 13: Aviation Weather Services › Electronic Flight Displays (EFD) /Multi-Function Display (MFD) Weather › Flight Information Service- Broadcast (FIS-B)

    equipment/avionics display—pilots remain responsible for the proper use of an electronic flight bag (EFB) or installed avionics. Pilots should be cognizant that, per the FAA Practical Test Standards, they may be evaluated on the use and interpretation ... installed avionics on the aircraft. • Overload of Information—most DLSPs offer numerous products with information that can be layered on top of each other. Pilots need to be aware that too much information can have a negative effect on their…

  • Chapter 11: Communication & Navigation › Introduction

    However, modern, solid-state, digital avionics are highly reliable. Mean times between failures are high, and maintenance rates of avionics systems compared to mechanical systems are likely to be lower. The first decade of avionics proliferation saw a greater increase ... percent of cost of avionics compared to the overall cost of an aircraft. In some military aircraft with highly refined navigation, weapons targeting, and monitoring systems, it hit a high estimate of 80 percent of the total cost…