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May 26th, 2006, 01:36
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Coloradan in Orange County, CA
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|  flying from the left seat again... I have not been in the left seat in well over a year and several hundred hours... Went up tonight to do some night currency and help out another CFI with the G1000 familiarization. Holy smokes... I felt like I was going to fall out of the airplane the entire time. If you have not switched seats in a while you may want to try it. Be careful on that first landing though. |
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May 26th, 2006, 16:43
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Utopia
Posts: 12,477
| Re: flying from the left seat again... It's good, every now and then, just to go around the pattern a time or two in the left seat if you're an active CFI. Keeps you fresh!
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May 26th, 2006, 23:19
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: where the beer is freshest
Posts: 89
| Re: flying from the left seat again... tim, how do you like the g1000? feel like you are pretty proficient. how do your students find it?? any problems going back to the round gauges? And yeah, I find it weird to transition form L seat to R seat... I still do... if only to pretend to be a captain.. good advice thanks
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May 27th, 2006, 21:09
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| Old Skool Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Coloradan in Orange County, CA
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| Re: flying from the left seat again... I love the G1000 now... I actually made a new column in my logbook for glass time so I could keep track of it and I am up around 70 hrs in it now. I feel pretty proficient in it. Yet to do any IFR stuff in it but from playing around with it I can see it is totally the way to go for General Aviation. Great for getting from A to B but probably not the best to use to learn basic skills. It was hard to get used to and I didn't really like it that much for the first 4 or 5 flights but after that it was no big deal switching back and forth between the NavII and III planes. I think the pilot's safety goes waaaay up if you use the system properly by combining the autopilot with the GPS and flying. I am still not convinced that the G1000 is the best way to go for pre private students. There seems to be too much going on for most to start out in it and learn the basic skills but I do have a few guys who are about to solo in it and they love it. It can be tough to get them to look outside enough though so I am constantly working on that. Overall, I would classify it as a great Cross Country and all around go and have fun plane. For initial training and learning your basic private pilot maneuvers I think people may be better off learning in the NavII Cessna and then doing the G1000 when they figure out how to fly. The thing I can't figure out though is why the rental rates for G1000s are so much more when the NavII sells for the same rate? You would think MX would be cheaper on a NavIII? Supply and demand I guess? |
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June 4th, 2006, 00:35
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| Re: flying from the left seat again... Quote:
The C172S Nav III's do cost more than the Nav II's. In fact, ALOT more. http://skyhawksp.cessna.com/pricelist.chtml It was only the first year that the G1000 was introduced into Cessna 182s and 206s (2005) that you could buy a Nav III for the same as a Nav II. It was just a promotional thing.  Lazy8 | |
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