MaydayMayday
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I am chair flying a newly installed avionics system before I take it out to the real world and I wanted to get your advice on how and when to use the various features of the following systems:
-Dual Skyview Displays
-Dynon radio
-Foreflight Pro Performance with Jeppesen charts
-Garman GTN-650
So lets say I am planning a flight on Foreflight (FF) and the flight is an IFR flight from BLH V135 south to do a couple of approaches at the KNYL airport.
With FF I can pick the airways, intersections, and even the approach that I want to use and overlay the actual Jepp chart onto the moving map, I can check the weather and plan it all out while on the ground and then when I get to the airplane I can use the WIFI to zap the route up to the SkyView (SV) and then with the HSI Source selected to SV the airplane will fly that route ...I got that all figured out...
So here is where the questions start...
The Dynon GPS and navigation has HITS but I assume that it does not calculate vertical descents??
As I am flying south on V135 I need to descend and I would like to use VNAV for the descent and fly the ILS 21R approach with the 7 DME arc using the CAZZI transition. At some point I need to switch to the GTN to do the approach so when is the best time to switch to the GTN?
After I do the switch to the GTN I will be on the transition from CAZZI and flying the DME arc so I presume the HSI source will be a magenta GTN and if I had already entered the step down altitudes for the approach into the GTN will it give me the VNAV glide path indication and it will also display the HITS symbols on the PFD and if my altitude alerter is selected to an altitude lower than the altitudes displayed will the VNAV respect all of the transition altitudes on the approach?
At some point on the arc I will need to switch from the magenta GNSS navigation to the green ILS LOC and GS needles...does that happen automatically when the airplane is turning from the arc to final?
When on the arc and the ILS does the HITS show the course and descent path with altitude restrictions all the way down to the DA?
When near minimums I press the TOGA button and I assume the guidance will automatically switch from ground based navigation to GNSS navigation? Does the HITS provide vertical nav guidance along the missed approach procedure and then out to the holding pattern?
I presume I will be using the Dynon radio the whole time because it has the choice of frequencies I can select so is this the preferred radio to use?
Any advice to a new user would be really helpful.
Thanks for the help!
-Dual Skyview Displays
-Dynon radio
-Foreflight Pro Performance with Jeppesen charts
-Garman GTN-650
So lets say I am planning a flight on Foreflight (FF) and the flight is an IFR flight from BLH V135 south to do a couple of approaches at the KNYL airport.
With FF I can pick the airways, intersections, and even the approach that I want to use and overlay the actual Jepp chart onto the moving map, I can check the weather and plan it all out while on the ground and then when I get to the airplane I can use the WIFI to zap the route up to the SkyView (SV) and then with the HSI Source selected to SV the airplane will fly that route ...I got that all figured out...
So here is where the questions start...
The Dynon GPS and navigation has HITS but I assume that it does not calculate vertical descents??
As I am flying south on V135 I need to descend and I would like to use VNAV for the descent and fly the ILS 21R approach with the 7 DME arc using the CAZZI transition. At some point I need to switch to the GTN to do the approach so when is the best time to switch to the GTN?
After I do the switch to the GTN I will be on the transition from CAZZI and flying the DME arc so I presume the HSI source will be a magenta GTN and if I had already entered the step down altitudes for the approach into the GTN will it give me the VNAV glide path indication and it will also display the HITS symbols on the PFD and if my altitude alerter is selected to an altitude lower than the altitudes displayed will the VNAV respect all of the transition altitudes on the approach?
At some point on the arc I will need to switch from the magenta GNSS navigation to the green ILS LOC and GS needles...does that happen automatically when the airplane is turning from the arc to final?
When on the arc and the ILS does the HITS show the course and descent path with altitude restrictions all the way down to the DA?
When near minimums I press the TOGA button and I assume the guidance will automatically switch from ground based navigation to GNSS navigation? Does the HITS provide vertical nav guidance along the missed approach procedure and then out to the holding pattern?
I presume I will be using the Dynon radio the whole time because it has the choice of frequencies I can select so is this the preferred radio to use?
Any advice to a new user would be really helpful.
Thanks for the help!