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Post subject: Re: PC-12 training Posted: 13 Apr 2018, 21:11 |
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Joined: 07/23/09 Posts: 1071 Post Likes: +564 Location: KSJT
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Username Protected wrote: By far the most useful part of APEX that takes practice is building your own approaches to any runway in the world. It's really cool and you can use it in case of an engine out in low IMC. I use it all the time VFR just to stay in practice and it's spot on every time. Set yourself a 6-8 degree glide slope from 10K' and APEX will show where to intercept and the plane will "glide" itself right to the numbers using VNAV. Really cool and I don't believe Garmin has an equivalent.
Agree Jason, that’s a great feature. Here’s a video of how to do it. https://youtu.be/R8LFOV11J8M?t=11m20s
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Post subject: Re: PC-12 training Posted: 13 Apr 2018, 21:44 |
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Joined: 01/08/11 Posts: 925 Post Likes: +1278 Location: California
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Username Protected wrote: I thought that the APEX class at SIMCOM was an incredible ripoff. Thanks for saying! Makes one wonder about the rest of the course too?
No...just the APEX add on.
I loved the rest of the course.
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Post subject: Re: PC-12 training Posted: 13 Apr 2018, 23:48 |
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Joined: 06/13/08 Posts: 1719 Post Likes: +205 Location: Orlando Melbourne Intl KMLB
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Username Protected wrote: After watching the videos, I feel proficient to fly the NG in an emergency, just not enough to demonstrate instrument proficiency for a Chief Pilot. By far the most useful part of APEX that takes practice is building your own approaches to any runway in the world. It's really cool and you can use it in case of an engine out in low IMC. I use it all the time VFR just to stay in practice and it's spot on every time. Set yourself a 6-8 degree glide slope from 10K' and APEX will show where to intercept and the plane will "glide" itself right to the numbers using VNAV. Really cool and I don't believe Garmin has an equivalent.
Yes, I want to master that for airports without precision approaches.
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Post subject: Re: PC-12 training Posted: 15 Apr 2018, 18:19 |
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Joined: 06/13/08 Posts: 1719 Post Likes: +205 Location: Orlando Melbourne Intl KMLB
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The 2-day APEX course was everything I expected and more. I let the instructor know ahead of time that I already invested a lot of time watching the many videos made available by Honeywell online. So we got right into the heart of the systems and I can confidently demonstrate what I need to this week: fly a scenario based profile to include a full route clearance, instrument departure procedure, enroute diversion, tracking and holding at an NDB/VOR, full ILS approach, and a missed approach. And I experienced some of the agony and the ecstacy:
Agony of manually entering altitudes for each leg of the MAZIE TWO arrival into Teterboro when enough of the fields in the FMW were not adequately completed to enable the performance computation.
The ecstacy of setting up holds and the vertical nav features.
It was my first experience in a turbine powered aircraft (simulator). So, of course, I left the course wanting more. But this class, for not much money, gave me a basic understanding of what such an advanced glass cockpit can do. Since I am a former software developer, the computer interface came naturally. However, there is no substitute for getting hands on the controls and making mistakes to really drive it home.
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Post subject: Re: PC-12 training Posted: 15 Apr 2018, 19:30 |
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Joined: 06/13/08 Posts: 1719 Post Likes: +205 Location: Orlando Melbourne Intl KMLB
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Username Protected wrote: Nice to hear, Don.
FWIW, back when I took the course, it was all videos. I never got to “touch” anything. World of difference... Ok, no wonder!!! And they seem to only offer it on weekends when there is likely to be more sim time available.
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