Common Autopilot Mistakes | G1000 Autopilot Training

[@Reciprocative]

Wow. I have an interview for a CFI position tomorrow for a school that uses autopilot and this video could not have dropped at a better time. Thank you so much.

[@flightinsight9111]

Best of luck!

[@lawrencen1897]

Good luck

[@TormodSteinsholt]

This was so cool. I really enjoy a video that takes a single concept and cements it by throwing cases at it. So much better than watching 10 approach tutorials hoping that one of them will touch on a specific "what if".

[@Micg51]

Great point at the end. In flight school was just trained to click app when cleared. Only when I got to the airline world was it stressed to not click app until the next waypoint is FAF/glideslope intercept, and instead use VNAV or some other dumb vertical mode to ensure crossing restrictions were met, because GS will NOT always ensure you hit all crossing restrictions.

[@Dylan-wz4uu]

Haha, jokes on you. My flight school's autopilot are all inop.

[@andrewdahlstrom5965]

I just took my CFI-I check-ride and I made a mistake with the auto pilot. If you have the approach loaded, but not activated and you’ve already crossed the IAF make sure you activate the leg, and don’t click “activate approach” otherwise you will begin to get turned around back towards the IAF.

[@StudentPilot4Life]

This is good to know… thanks for sharing!

[@healerf18]

Outstanding. Thank you!

[@ScottsSynthStuff]

The last tip is gold. That said...won't some AP's automatically activate engage approach mode if the approach is loaded, and you are vectored onto one of the approach segments?

[@1dullgeek]

Re: arming approach mode, just because the GP is armed, doesn't mean you can't also initiate a VS descent to 1700 before the glidepath intercept point. GP will still be armed. So what I do is arm approach mode when I get clearance, but when I pass (in this example) WENDS, I would initiate a VS descent at 500 fpm to 1700 so that I capture the GP at JIPKE. It works well with the AP that I have (Garmin GFC500). I would want to test other APs to see if they behaved differently.

[@jakew9887]

Great presentation. Thanks

[@ericjohnson2036]

Perhaps emphasize that one should never press APR before one is cleared for the approach.

[@mitchmclain4809]

Do you have a video that talks about the proper way to activate an approach on a GFC 500 when vectored in between the IAF and FAF?

[@fishhisy]

A coworker of mine deferred the autopilot GFC600 because it wouldn't arm the approach. I told him the autopilot head didn't recognize an approach waypoint in the gps so it didn't let you arm the approach.

[@SamuelSnider-l7l]

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[@cmoney2731]

I hate autopilot. That is all