Every new small airline comes standard equipped with the same kind of flight computers and autopilots that you find in commercial passenger aircraft. This provides basic common-sense instruction in the use of cockpit automation equipment now available on smaller propeller aircraft. The entire use of cockpit automation is covered as it happens in an actual flight, from preflight, taxi-out, take-off, cruise, descent, and landing. General aviation cockpit automation equipment covered includes: IFR GPS, Autopilots, Electronic Flight Instruments, Multifunction Navigation Displays, Weather Radar, Ground Proximity Warning Systems, Traffic Collision Avoidance System, Radio Altimeters, Fuel Management Computers, Engine Monitors.
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Stephen M. Casner, Ph.D., is a research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, He holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with type ratings in the Boeing 737 and Cessna Citation, and is a Gold Seal Certified Flight Instructor.
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THIS CHAPTER TAKES you on a quick tour of the modern airline cockpit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cockpit automation systems, planned descent path, using cockpit automation, modern airline cockpit, conditional waypoint, flight mode annunciator, dialed altitude, dialed localizer, autothrottle mode, modem airline cockpit, planned flight route, altitude intervention, terminal area procedures, altitude window, line select button, autoflight system, mode control panel, route discontinuity, active waypoint, planned cruising altitude, flight management computer, officer dials, flight director commands, crossing restriction, electronic attitude director indicator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Route Legs, Heading Select, Level Change, Perf Init, Altitude Hold, Takeoff Ref, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Porte Three, Route Data, Sadde Six, Rejoining the Planned Route, The Quick Tour, Thrust Hold New!
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THIS CHAPTER TAKES you on a quick tour of the modern airline cockpit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cockpit automation systems, planned descent path, using cockpit automation, modern airline cockpit, conditional waypoint, flight mode annunciator, dialed altitude, dialed localizer, autothrottle mode, modem airline cockpit, planned flight route, altitude intervention, terminal area procedures, altitude window, line select button, autoflight system, mode control panel, route discontinuity, active waypoint, planned cruising altitude, flight management computer, officer dials, flight director commands, crossing restriction, electronic attitude director indicator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Route Legs, Heading Select, Level Change, Perf Init, Altitude Hold, Takeoff Ref, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Porte Three, Route Data, Sadde Six, Rejoining the Planned Route, The Quick Tour, Thrust Hold New!
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