Just when you thought you were good at it! Some do it for a living and it can get muddy. Enjoy

Edited October 7, 20214 yr by Bernard Ducret

These MAF pilots have always really interesting videos. 

And one of the nice things in MSFS is the profusion of strips in Papua/PNG.

The incredible thing is the glass cockpit equipment of that aircraft!!!

1 minute ago, Bernard Ducret said:

The incredible thing is the glass cockpit equipment of that aircraft!!!

I posted on the Milviz Porter thread a page from a British pilot who flew a Susi Air Porter for years. An extract

It does seem rather odd to have such a high tech setup in what is quintessentially a bush plane but it’s amazing how the Garmin G950 glass cockpit has made flying easier and safer. The Traffic Avoidance System (TAS) and GPS terrain database are fantastic additions to the older setup providing another level of situational awareness to the pilot. I’m not 100% convinced on the Primary Flight Display (PFD – screen on the left in-front of the pilot), as I still prefer the instant familiarity of the traditional “six pack” instrument setup but it’s a small price to pay for the many additional features the whole setup offers.

I've been watching this channel for couple years now. Pretty cool stuff there! 

I have experience in the real world of both analogue and glass cockpits under the IFR and am comfortable with both environments. The benefits in situational awareness and safety of navigation in a properly used glass cockpit cannot be beaten. To me, this romantic notion of a traditional 6-pack is nonsense and watching Ryan in his Kodiak is proof of this. PNG used to be a killing field for bush pilots before glass cockpits and any trained eye can see how much safer it has made bush flying in PNG. Why else do modern airliners have glass?

10 minutes ago, DavidP said:

I have experience in the real world of both analogue and glass cockpits under the IFR and am comfortable with both environments. The benefits in situational awareness and safety of navigation in a properly used glass cockpit cannot be beaten. To me, this romantic notion of a traditional 6-pack is nonsense and watching Ryan in his Kodiak is proof of this. PNG used to be a killing field for bush pilots before glass cockpits and any trained eye can see how much safer it has made bush flying in PNG. Why else do modern airliners have glass?

Same here. I got my instrument rating with six pack, but later started appreciate glass. In my opinion "glass" makes proficient pilot safer!

With an emphasis on ‘proficient’… then I agree 😉

For the occasional hobby pilot, flying under VFR once a month, to manipulate something like the G1000 can be really daunting. 
 

Cheers,

S.

There are two really good examples in the video of how the glass cockpit can be of particular value to bush pilots:

• The pilot sets the G1000 baro minimums -- which of course are really intended for IFR flying --  to alert him when he descends below 500 feet (IIRC) above the airfield. He explains that he does this because it's really easy in the mountains to lose situational awareness of how high you are relative to the airfield and descend too low.
• On final approach, he is continually monitoring the tailwind component displayed on the PFD and using this to evaluate whether to continue the approach or go around (which he does on the first attempt). Again, this is particularly valuable in a bush environment because the kind of fields that he flies into in PNG don't have a tower that could give a wind check.