Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.
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A D - I -Y G l a s s Pa n e l easier than correcting the slope and vertical distance with one move. The wind components show why the airplane is drifting off the localizer, and a change in the crosswind component predicts where the plane is headed next. I can proactively react instead of finding out later that I have drifted off course. When approaching for a VFR landing, I still use the descent function and the airport elevation. The wind vector and component values help select the best runway miles from the airport and track the wind accurately down to the ground. The wind sock has become passé and not worth locating from above. This is the ADS-B weather 125-nm screen looking ahead of the aircraft with track up. Many airports with their corresponding metars are shown in a 50-nm radius surrounding the next waypoint. Its purpose is to focus on the next waypoint or destination and provide options. Imagine fog is moving onshore and you need to find a clear airport. Since fog is invisible to Doppler radar, metars can be used to locate the fog line. My Newest Best Friend The ADC also selects the NavWorx ADS-B weather screens. I am normally flying on autopilot when looking at weather because these screens overlay the primary screen. The weather screens are: 360-degree view, airport Class B and C metars, 400-nautical-mile range forward, and 125-nautical-mile range forward. The 360-degree view shows the weather at all Class B and C airports surrounding my immediate location, and the following screen shows the metars at those airports. It is generally used early in the flight to plot a route around local weather. A database of metars, winds, and temporary flight restrictions are built as the flight progresses. From this database, entries are automatically selected for display using the current route as retrieved from the 430W. Below is the 400 nautical miles ADS-B weather screen that is optimized to look ahead of the aircraft with track-up. Metars are shown for the entire route, winds aloft in the nearest reporting area, and temporary flight restrictions are plotted and described. The purpose of this screen is to analyze weather along your route from where you are to your destination. Without analysis What You Can't See Can Kill You You can control your pilot skill level, control your aircraft condition, even control known weather, but traffic is purely random. The big sky theory was only valid for the Wright brothers. I have flown for three decades looking for 24 Vol.2 No.5 / May 2013