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• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-30
  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…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-29
  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…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 4-5-10
  Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 5. Surveillance Systems › 4-5-6. Traffic Information Service (TIS)

  NOTE-Depending on the avionics manufacturer implementation, it is possible that some of these messages will not be directly available to the pilot. 5. Depending on avionics system design, TIS may be presented to the pilot in a variety ... used, either alone or in combination with a visual display. FIG 4-5-5, Traffic Information Service (TIS), Avionics Block Diagram, shows an example of a TIS display using symbology similar to the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 1-1-37
  Chapter 1. Air Navigation › Section 1. Navigation Aids › 1-1-18. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)

  satisfies the requirements for basic GPS equipment. (See paragraph 1-1-17 for these requirements). 9. Unlike TSO-C129 avionics, which were certified as a supplement to other means of navigation, WAAS avionics are evaluated without reliance on other navigation ... systems. As such, installation of WAAS avionics does not require the aircraft to have other equipment appropriate to the route to be flown. (See paragraph 1-1-17 d for more information on equipment requirements.) (a) Pilots with WAAS receivers…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-31
  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…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Airframep. 11-1
  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…