Garmin’s SmartCharts promise a cleaner, more intuitive way to brief and fly instrument procedures on the iPad—but how do they hold up in the real world, especially when ATC throws a curveball? In this ...

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I am continuing my instrument rating training so that I can become IFR rated. Being an instrument rated pilot I feel will make me a safer pilot. I have been training in my Piper Cherokee 235 and it ...

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Garmin has introduced Guided Visual Approaches, a new database offering that provides lateral and vertical guidance for pilots flying visual approaches to challenging airports. A growing list of 31 ...

The Correctness-by-Construction tutorial focuses on a structured programming approach for correct software development. Besides functional correctness, also non-functional properties such as security ...

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Abstract: Instrument flight procedures (IFPs) are a cornerstone of the National Airspace System (NAS) and provide paths and instructions for aircraft to safely operate in restricted visibility and in ...

The KLN currently only displays approaches encoded as "GPS". This limits it's functionality in the sim quite a lot. Instead all RNAV approaches should be available, except those that make use of RF ...

Plan ahead to use this daytime-only approach during shortened winter days. The GPS approach to Runway 30 at Half Moon Bay in California could just end up being the approach any of us need to get below ...