landing descent planning in flight planning

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landing descent planning in flight planning

10/25/2015 12:24 AM

pielit

Joined: 2/8/2012

Posts: 183

Re: landing descent planning in flight planning Modified By pielit on 10/30/2015 6:51:42 PM

The Start Decending Instrument is called the VST instrument. (I flew today, that's how I know what it's called.)

Zodiac 601HDS N6402X aprs KF7WIR-1

10/26/2015 2:32 PM

Shane

Joined: 4/21/2010

Posts: 1709

Re: landing descent planning in flight planning

In 9.2 we added the Emergency Assistance Mode. Just tap the Red Emergency Alert button at the top left corner of the NRST page. This will drive the list to All Airports, and disregard any length filters and such. In an emergency, you'll take a shorter runway. At altitude, it will color code the airport direction icon and show Green, Yellow and Red. I'm guessing the colors speak for themselves. It's very conservative and is also based on the Glide Ratio in the Aircraft Profile, so to maximize accuracy, you want to have the correct glide ration entered. Here is an image.

Note: It now shows "All Airports" at the top, when in Emergency Assistance Mode.

Shane Woodson
Vice President | Adventure Pilot LLC.

10/26/2015 3:39 PM

Joined: 1/1/0001

Posts: 0

Re: landing descent planning in flight planning

Left = <-----

Right = ----->

Shane wrote:

In 9.2 we added the Emergency Assistance Mode. Just tap the Red Emergency Alert button at the top left corner of the NRST page. This will drive the list to All Airports, and disregard any length filters and such. In an emergency, you'll take a shorter runway. At altitude, it will color code the airport direction icon and show Green, Yellow and Red. I'm guessing the colors speak for themselves. It's very conservative and is also based on the Glide Ratio in the Aircraft Profile, so to maximize accuracy, you want to have the correct glide ration entered. Here is an image.

Note: It now shows "All Airports" at the top, when in Emergency Assistance Mode.