Below radar
It s so nice to be appreciated ! As Pace said in his post above the avionics are best learned on the ground so why spend expensive time in the air teaching them, what matters is if the pilot can control the aircraft.
Most of these Avionic systems can be switched back to a basic HSI if you wish so use of these systems is not mandatory and in some cases the full EFIS navigation display can just confuse the situation with too much information, last week I turned off the map and put up the basic HSI to aid clarity during a VOR approach to runway 22R at Nice.
The most important thing with advanced Avionic systems is to make sure that you are the master of the system and select the appropriate display, don't become a slave to the system and become overloaded with information that distracts you from the task in hand. Most people fly the Cirrus VFR and for his the basic tools are the ASI, compass and looking out of the window.
I would question if too much information and too little looking out of the window were factors in the unfortunate accident at Shoreham some time back?
Last edited by A and C; 14th Jul 2012 at 20:14.