tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post3144373476339472595..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Garmin 430 OverviewAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-20819898369900372832010-04-01T04:26:00.399+00:002010-04-01T04:26:00.399+00:00LaTeX? "Deeply recursive?" You are such ...LaTeX? "Deeply recursive?" You are such a geek. And you fly an aeroplane.<br /><br />Gosh, some people are so much cooler than me.<br /><br />(Oh, and grrr.....<sub> tag is not allowed.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-69732787456055440822010-03-15T18:11:41.193+00:002010-03-15T18:11:41.193+00:00Yes the problem is fixed. No more crashed browser ...Yes the problem is fixed. No more crashed browser here.<br />Thank you, Aviatrix!Mario in PYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-71278462821364754822010-03-13T17:37:00.220+00:002010-03-13T17:37:00.220+00:00Did the comic/video change fix the crashing proble...Did the comic/video change fix the crashing problem?<br /><br />It's not like I chose Vista. It was on the computer I had to buy to replace the broken one, and I didn't have my XP discs.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-22241648380036492612010-03-13T15:51:21.871+00:002010-03-13T15:51:21.871+00:00A GNS430 saved my butt one time. Lost both VORs an...A GNS430 saved my butt one time. Lost both VORs and the DME due to a mix of wiring and water just inside the FAF. As Frank said it was just follow the magenta line to the runway. I would love to have one again...Jimmynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-7972763751801571042010-03-13T14:16:01.857+00:002010-03-13T14:16:01.857+00:00"I wish they still made the CNX-80."
I ..."I wish they still made the CNX-80."<br /><br />I agree 100%. The 430/530 is more like a VFR pilots dream, the CNX-80 was a much better setup for IFR flying. Garmin bought out Apollo and used some of the technology to get the 430/530 to work. Apollo was years ahead of Garmin in R&D. They had mode S transponders, and WAAS before Garmin ever knew what it was. I regret selling the CNX-80 in my last plane. Had I known they would be discontinued I would have dropped in a 430 and kept the 80.SwL_Wildcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382195216182703371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-42866780066223764272010-03-13T13:23:12.419+00:002010-03-13T13:23:12.419+00:00Based on what I've observed some students doin...Based on what I've observed some students doing, an easy trap with the 430/530 is to forget to toggle the HSI source between GPS/VLOC. It seems pretty easy to do all the other necessary things and miss this, and then you fly off in the weeds. Most embarassing.<br /><br />Nasty instructors know this, e.g. "Are you <i>sure</i> the intersection is still in front of you?"Steve C.http://airphoria.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-79987918545323253732010-03-13T03:52:05.715+00:002010-03-13T03:52:05.715+00:00Vista.. Makes Win ME look good.
Other than that,...Vista.. Makes Win ME look good. <br /><br />Other than that, I refret that I'm breaking my mommy's rule about "if you can't say something good ...."Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726267862761677407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-74066590865133946802010-03-13T02:16:20.720+00:002010-03-13T02:16:20.720+00:00I just upgraded Firefox this moment, and no proble...I just upgraded Firefox this moment, and no problems here with either 3.5.8 or 3.6 on Vista. <br /><br />I suspect the problem is with either the overwide cartoon or the clunky video link in the previous post. I'll fix those.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-21170205030152078712010-03-13T01:25:09.504+00:002010-03-13T01:25:09.504+00:00@Mario
Running Firefox 3.6 in windows 7 and no cr...@Mario<br /><br />Running Firefox 3.6 in windows 7 and no crashing issues here.<br /><br />Maybe a linux specific issue?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-31838231693682414682010-03-13T01:10:18.488+00:002010-03-13T01:10:18.488+00:00Dear Aviatrix,
I am a long time reader of your wo...Dear Aviatrix,<br /><br />I am a long time reader of your wonderful blog. Please keep posting!<br /><br />OTOH I wanted to inform you that this post contains some code that causes Firefox to crash. I am positing this with Konqueror (the Linux KDE browser). So I have not tested with the MS IE browser.<br /><br />It does not matter if I use my bookmark to the blog homepage or the article link from the "Blogging Pilots" website. Both crash Firefox 3.5.8 on Linux.Mario in PYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-65649126391363513442010-03-12T21:49:58.044+00:002010-03-12T21:49:58.044+00:00Ha,
You're going to love/hate it.
Yea, appro...Ha,<br /><br />You're going to love/hate it.<br /><br />Yea, approaches are neat, there is airport data for like a million airports and navaids, and just click, highlight, and press a couple of buttons and the radio is tuned to that frequency.<br /><br />But, wait until you are given a new routing by ATC. You'll still have to break out the chart and find every intersection marked with a ---| |--- because Garmin 400/500 boxes don't do airways.<br /><br />So, the, "Join V1 at DANDO then HEW..." is going to cause some consternation and frantic chart action if you want to stay on the airway.<br /><br />The other overrated feature is the radio tuning. You may be able to look up the frequency and tune it with a click, turn, push, push, but that's not the frequency in use and ATC isn't listening there. Bah.<br /><br />I wish they still made the CNX-80.<br /><br />--paulPaulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-64369582387774236952010-03-12T18:08:01.057+00:002010-03-12T18:08:01.057+00:00A computer system cost over a thousand dollars; Mi...A computer system cost over a thousand dollars; Microsoft Word was a couple of hundred and ran off floppy disks. Unix accounts were free on school machines and LaTeX was already installed. How do you think I wrote my essays?<br /><br />Before I got the Unix account I wrote them out by hand and paid a woman in the math department who had "scientific" font module for her IBM Selectric to type them for me.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-46347976268961901822010-03-12T16:32:37.697+00:002010-03-12T16:32:37.697+00:00LaTeX? You don't seriously know how to use tha...LaTeX? You don't seriously know how to use that do you? I thought that was limited to university professors and the odd author here and there.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584849795883087445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-18902884501919390082010-03-12T15:12:58.673+00:002010-03-12T15:12:58.673+00:00Not sure about the scaling figures that you give f...Not sure about the scaling figures that you give for departures - the way I read it, the CDI scaling is set at 1NM when you are inside 30NM of the ARP (Dep or Dest) for all departures, arrivals and initial approaches.Jeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-75068483113725995852010-03-12T03:42:17.038+00:002010-03-12T03:42:17.038+00:00I heard good things about Max Trescott's book ...I heard good things about Max Trescott's book <a href="http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/10346.htm" rel="nofollow">GPS and WAAS</a> but haven't got my hands on it yet. The cover mentions the Garmin 430 as well as other models up to the G1000 Glass Cockpit.Julienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00981068637782241298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-82253030839452622932010-03-12T03:38:26.988+00:002010-03-12T03:38:26.988+00:00Oooh, good news. You're going to love it. It...Oooh, good news. You're going to love it. It does take some "muscle memory" to learn some commonly done things.<br /><br />What is not intuitive in these things actually may vary from person to person. The top 2 things that confuse me are<br /><br />1) How do I get rid of an approach? Not from the menu in "proc", but press FPL, MENU then scroll down to see the hidden "remove approach" ENT<br /><br />2) I have three waypoints loaded, with direct-to set to the middle one. Why does "proc" keep offering me approaches to the third airport? Instead, FPL MENU scroll(Select approach) ENT MENU MENU scroll(select next FPL Apt) ENT ... ahhh finally.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991660841701835065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-56015306738543254252010-03-12T02:22:32.104+00:002010-03-12T02:22:32.104+00:00Yup, I'm playing with the simulator now.Yup, I'm playing with the simulator now.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-22050500609634298332010-03-12T02:13:57.117+00:002010-03-12T02:13:57.117+00:00The simulator is great, although I found that ther...The simulator is great, although I found that there's nothing like actually manipulating the physical knobs on the real unit to reliably imprint my brain with how the whole thing works.<br /><br />Something to do with muscle memory or the combination of muscle memory with higher cognitive functions I guess.<br /><br />The only bad thing with Garmin receivers is that they make it very hard to find out which TSO each unit is certified to. As far as I remember it's only the color of a dot (blue or grey for memory) near the COM volume knob that gives it away.<br /><br />I never used the Garmin 430 for instrument flying, but it's a fantastic unit for VFR anyway as long as you remember to take your eyes off it from time to time :-)Julienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00981068637782241298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-62309175332813226392010-03-12T01:51:56.724+00:002010-03-12T01:51:56.724+00:00i'll be taking my instrument checkride with du...i'll be taking my instrument checkride with dual GNS430s very soon. I only use it when doing GPS approaches though as I also appreciate the traditional radios in the older (cheaper) rentals. although, no HSI or AP/FD in any of the warriors at the club! heck, even a heading bug would be nice!<br /><br />working with the single knob to change 2 active and 2 standby frequencies can get confusing at first (do i press this, turn this half or press that now...?) but after a flight or 3 you'll get it committed to muscle memory. it's like putting on pants, when you stop to think about every move you're making, you'll get tripped up!<br /><br /><br />Also - the full deflections in nm are displayed on the sides of the scale, so you don't have to remember in the clag. you can actually see them walk down as you enter the next phase of flight!<br /><br />no doubt you've seen the simulator they provide?<br /><br />http://www8.garmin.com/include/SimulatorPopup.html<br /><br />have fun!sounddochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07044303259235037764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-46428848946729422392010-03-12T01:47:35.563+00:002010-03-12T01:47:35.563+00:00Unfortunately, there is no such HTML tag for smart...Unfortunately, there is no such HTML tag for smart footnotes. Some systems take care of it for you at a higher level. For instance, MediaWiki has <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php" rel="nofollow">cite.php</a> for this. I don't know if Blogger has a plug-in for this.Matthew Flaschenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01906171434345454278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-36399524194961656892010-03-12T01:27:38.009+00:002010-03-12T01:27:38.009+00:00Dear Trix:
You are going to LOVE it! I've bee...Dear Trix:<br /><br />You are going to LOVE it! I've been driving N631S with the aid of a GNS530 for nearly five years now (and the WAAS version for half that) and it is a remarkably well thought out and reliable machine. (The switches are all holding up quite nicely.)<br /><br />The best part of the deal is to be able to use the RNAV approaches and have the runway show up Right There, as opposed to the old VOR approaches where you got to MDA and had to find the runway at some odd offset to straight ahead.<br /><br />Another delight is to be approaching an unfamiliar airport on a hazy day and select Direct To the airport and hit the OBS key and spin the CDI to the runway heading, and just let the magenta line tell you where the extended runway c/l is.<br /><br />Yes, it can bite. Get really good about when to load an approach vs when to activate an approach and how to abandon an approach to go back around for another go. Lots of traps there.<br /><br />I hope your boss is springing for the WAAS version. Well worth the extra bucks. And then all you need is the GPSS module to connect the Garmin to the autopilot! You just sit back and watch the magic. Very cool!<br /><br />Fly it safely -- keep us apprised of your adventures.<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />FrankFrank Van Hastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821687850881538546noreply@blogger.com