I think it's pretty reckless for you to openly suggest that pilots make changes to the settings of their avionics, especially in maintenance mode. That should only be done by an appropriately authorized person, like an A&P or a Repair Station.
You are wrong.
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I clearly STATE in this thread twice pilots do NOT adjust the G5 on their own, especially if a Rental or Club group plane. READ THE THREAD for the Love of God.... The internet is full of video's making this adjustment.
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The STC (document that allows installation into a standard category airplane) allows adjustment to suit. The instructions to install a G5 are generic for any make model aircraft from a small single, to a large twin like a King Air, not spacific. However a note in calibration instructions clearly gives authorization to make a few degee adjustment. No big deal. AS I SAID I got concurrence with A&P / AI / Garman.
I do NOT recommend adjustment by pilots theirselves. Don't put words in my mouth.
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I called GARMAN who APPROVED. THEY SAID NO PROBLEM.
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I changed nothing. THE A&P / AI did the work who I communicated with. ALL LEGAL AND SAFE. He is highly experienced and know more than you.
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3 degreed or 0 degrees is not sacred putch in level flight.. As many said VSI tells you if you are level. No kidding. TRUE, BUT it is
secondary, performance, monitoring indicatior of pitch, with Altimeter and Airspeed.
THE Attitude Indicatior (AI) is PRIMARY, directly reads Pitch and Bank. Nothing else shows pitch directly. No AI? AI dead, vacuum or glass? This is PARTIAL PANEL, an URGENT SITUATION IN IMC. The AI is most important (why it is called Primary) and should read properly and be easy to interpret. MOST pilots i have observed in 38 years, if given a pitch Ref adjustment knob (e.g., Vac AI) set Level on Horizon. In Airline transport category that is totally different, and no G5 is approved I know of. If it is then it needed a specific STC for that Air Transport plane.
I have flown 40 Different planes from aerobatic to B767-300ER. Yes you
SCAN / Cross check / Interpret / Control. You set what target pitch and power you want for desired performance, be it Straight and Level, Climb, Descent and combo there of, at different speeds or ROC +/-. You adjust pitch, bank, power as required for desired performance. Trust me.
THIS IS NO BIG DEAL.
It really is not important if its 3 or 0 degree. I find it eaiser for students learning to hand fly in IMC in a C152/C172/Piper eaiser if the Jorizon is level. It is eaiser for me to see if level is on Horizon as well. Me and my student are in actual IMC. My students might have a 70 hrs, fresh privite, hand flying, shooting an approach to Mins, DA / MDA, I want to know exactly what their pitch is WAY BEFORE the VSI or Altimeter says we are too low. (Yes let's not repeat 10th time pitch varies with speed, altitude, Air density, weight....etc.)
Thr prople on this thread say get use to 3 degrees or I'm hurting my students , or going to fly into thr ground or "reckless". Good greif. OK they have to get use to pitch indication in different planes, with different EFIS, calibrated differently, or fly non advanced cockpits. THIS IS WHERE ATTITUDE INSTRUMENT SKILLS COME IN. My students will have skill, be proficient to fly other planes. But they need to start somewhere. The good instrument skills are portable. One interview, Early in my career, at an interview they had me fly B747 -200 simulator. At thst time never flew a big jet (Cessna Citation was my only jet time to that point). I flew a perfect ILS. They said how did yiu do that. I just smiled. I used my basuc instrument skills.
So what the heck are you talking about? I have flown 38 years, CFI-INST-MUTI, ATP CE500, B737, B757, B767 with no accidents, no incidences, no violations, over 14,000 hours, 1000hrs of that dual given in GA, every rating from Pvt to Multi ATP and CFI canadates. All passed 1st time, all. My priority is Safety, Legality and Efficency.
I am not instructing to build hours or for money. I have plenty of both. I do it because I enjoy it and I'm good at it. I want to help young pilots. My question was answered on 1st page about 4th post. The G5 is adjusted, I and my students LOVE it, safe, legal and efficient.
Pretty sure this thread is over unless someone wants to troll me...I don't let slander go. Watch it.