Quick reference guide

[purlee]

Following on from Miteguy's suggestion. What would be useful, and probably easier to print and carry, would be a quick reference guide for things like autopilot, VNAV, adding waypoints in flight, etc

Perhaps users could add suggestions as to what they would like to see in such a document

 

[preid]

What may be even better is users send in the steps for each respective feature (autopilot and page number if more info is needed) and it all can get put into a quick reference by the end users. Maybe someone even does it and posts it on this thread.

 

[swatson999]

I would love to see this...maybe a 2 or 3 page or so "flip chart" booklet (spiral bound?) with graphics (which is why I probably won't make one myself...to do it right really needs someone with good graphic arts and documentarian skills).

As an example, and I posted this a while back, look at the Garmin 400/500 series Quick Reference guides. They're WAY too long, and WAY too word, and have a bunch of BS at the beginning that is unnecessary, plus super-basic stuff that borders on "how to push a button" that isn't needed, either, but...

It has a page with a diagram of the page layout/hierarchy, then sequential steps with images for the major functions.

Something like that...*Particularly* for the advanced autopilot functions (e.g., to intercept a localizer, to climb to an altitude on departure via a course, etc.) would be really nice.

 

[TRCsmith]

Second on the "Advance autopilot items."

 

[trevpond]

Brilliant idea a quick reference guide, any chance Dynon?

Best regards

Trev ;D

 

[dynonsupport]

There's a chance. What would you like us to not work on?

We'd love to do more training materials and we do keep hearing that as a top-of-the list customer request. One challenge we have is that SkyView is a very flexible system, so it's not like a stand-alone G430 or a G1000. If we write one user guide that is based on two screens connected to a GTN and an an AP control panel, the guy with one screen and a Sl-30 with only soft keys is going to ask how to do it with his system. At some point, it's just the user guide again.

So that's why it's not just someone sitting down for 4 hours and making a nice single diagram. But we hear you and we continue to try and figure out how to do the best training possible on our systems while maintaining our price points.