All,
My flying club in Gaithersburg just completed the avionics upgrade for our 182, complete with a GFC 500. I went and picked up the plane, and it is fantastic.
- Preset my climb altitude, and IAS before take off.
- Lined up with the runway, pushed the GA (Go Around) button. That gave me about 7 degrees nose up on the flight director. Pushed power in to full power, rotate and then got my yellow chevron to snug up to the hollow magenta chevron. Climb speed was about 90 kts at full power.
- 800 feet AGL, turned on the autopilot - came on ROL mode. Adjusted the heading to intercept the navigation path, and turned on HDG mode.
- pushed IAS again and scrolled nose down to get it to 90 and reduced power to climb power.
- Loaded up an ILS approach to an intermediary airport, got to the IAF. 430W captured the localizer and switched the CDI to green and I pushed the APR button. That engaged LOC, and armed GS.
- Reduced power when within 1 dot of GS capture. It flew the approach all the way to minimums.
- pushed the GA button and pushed in power and carb heat. Autopilot pitched the nose up and started climbing at about 7 degrees nose up.
- I cleaned up flaps, pushed the susp key and obs key on the 430 (to switch back to GPS navigation). Then pushed the NAV button on the AP, which turned me to the holding point.
- I pushed IAS and adjusted desired climb speed and reduced power to top of the green.
AP took me to the hold, entered it.
I didn't touch anything from about 800 feet AGL after takeoff. Absolutely amazing when you think this is happening in a 1980s Cessna.
List of equipment in this plane now is:
- GFC 500 with pitch trim option
- Garmin GNS 430 WAAS
- Garmin GMA 345 with bluetooth connectivity for phone and music streaming.
- Garmin GTX 345 - ADS-B, traffic and weather display on 430 and on Foreflight via bluetooth.
- Garmin G5 Attitude Indicator
- Garmin G5 HSI
- Garmin GNC 255 secondary radio
- EDM 850 engine monitor with fuel totalizer
Here are a couple of pics
My flying club in Gaithersburg just completed the avionics upgrade for our 182, complete with a GFC 500. I went and picked up the plane, and it is fantastic.
- Preset my climb altitude, and IAS before take off.
- Lined up with the runway, pushed the GA (Go Around) button. That gave me about 7 degrees nose up on the flight director. Pushed power in to full power, rotate and then got my yellow chevron to snug up to the hollow magenta chevron. Climb speed was about 90 kts at full power.
- 800 feet AGL, turned on the autopilot - came on ROL mode. Adjusted the heading to intercept the navigation path, and turned on HDG mode.
- pushed IAS again and scrolled nose down to get it to 90 and reduced power to climb power.
- Loaded up an ILS approach to an intermediary airport, got to the IAF. 430W captured the localizer and switched the CDI to green and I pushed the APR button. That engaged LOC, and armed GS.
- Reduced power when within 1 dot of GS capture. It flew the approach all the way to minimums.
- pushed the GA button and pushed in power and carb heat. Autopilot pitched the nose up and started climbing at about 7 degrees nose up.
- I cleaned up flaps, pushed the susp key and obs key on the 430 (to switch back to GPS navigation). Then pushed the NAV button on the AP, which turned me to the holding point.
- I pushed IAS and adjusted desired climb speed and reduced power to top of the green.
AP took me to the hold, entered it.
I didn't touch anything from about 800 feet AGL after takeoff. Absolutely amazing when you think this is happening in a 1980s Cessna.
List of equipment in this plane now is:
- GFC 500 with pitch trim option
- Garmin GNS 430 WAAS
- Garmin GMA 345 with bluetooth connectivity for phone and music streaming.
- Garmin GTX 345 - ADS-B, traffic and weather display on 430 and on Foreflight via bluetooth.
- Garmin G5 Attitude Indicator
- Garmin G5 HSI
- Garmin GNC 255 secondary radio
- EDM 850 engine monitor with fuel totalizer
Here are a couple of pics
