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by CFIDave
Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:05 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Power off 180
Replies: 31
Views: 2407

Re: Power off 180

...if I don't want people to catch me slippin'. I have heard that lately the FAA seems to be viewing slipping on descent as a disfavored technique I don't understand where people have been hearing that forward slips have been discredited. It's a technique that's as old as GA flying: Since at least ...
by CFIDave
Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:22 am
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: updating Nav database before expiration
Replies: 10
Views: 795

Re: updating Nav database before expiration

smoss wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:49 pm anything else of note change from 0321.22 going to .23?
read this and look up GDU12:

download/file.php?id=4072
by CFIDave
Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:46 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: updating Nav database before expiration
Replies: 10
Views: 795

Re: updating Nav database before expiration

On the Lycoming DA40 with Legacy G1000, software versions prior to 2012 (with GDU 12) supported only a single set of databases, and if you updated these databases prematurely (i.e., before their effective date), you'd end up displaying improper "future" databases that weren't yet approved ...
by CFIDave
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Color fading on wings
Replies: 4
Views: 533

Re: Color fading on wings

This sure looks like remnants of a composite repair.
by CFIDave
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Power off 180
Replies: 31
Views: 2407

Re: Power off 180

For Commercial power off 180 degree spot landings, you have 3 tools in your "toolbox" to use: - when/where to put in more flaps - how steeply (longer vs. shorter path) to turn back to the runway - forward slips In a DA40 -- a low-drag plane that "really wants to fly" and "d...
by CFIDave
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Power off 180
Replies: 31
Views: 2407

Re: Power off 180

For Commercial single-engine maneuvers and the checkride, eyes mostly outside the cockpit are essential and preferred -- the opposite of when working on your Instrument Rating. After getting my IR, I really enjoyed working on my Commercial (single) because I could look outside again and learn to fly...
by CFIDave
Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: G1000 NXi Phase III
Replies: 110
Views: 78301

Re: G1000 NXi Phase III

I'm guessing that moving the SR airframe to the G3000 is a precursor to Cirrus introducing autoland on the SR22, since the Vision Jet, Piper M600, and TBM 960 with autoland all use the G3000. That would be interesting! Also means G8 should come with autothrottle, possibly fadec for the mixture cont...
by CFIDave
Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: G1000 NXi Phase III
Replies: 110
Views: 78301

Re: G1000 NXi Phase III

All you have to do is look at the SR22 G7 panel to see that it's based on the Garmin G3000 -- just like the Cirrus Vision Jet panel it emulates in order to facilitate customer transition from the SR22 to the jet. Cirrus flight deck marketing terminology: Perspective = Legacy G1000 (starting with 200...
by CFIDave
Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Power off 180
Replies: 31
Views: 2407

Re: Power off 180

Thanks Dave, I had originally planned on doing something like this but then changed when another pilot who recently did his commercial and told me the slip was frowned upon because it showed you did not have complete control of the airplane. Were you using the slip only after you had deployed landi...
by CFIDave
Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:17 am
Forum: DA40 Forum
Topic: Power off 180
Replies: 31
Views: 2407

Re: Power off 180

For Commercial power off 180 degree spot landings, you have 3 tools in your "toolbox" to use: - when/where to put in more flaps - how steeply (longer vs. shorter path) to turn back to the runway - forward slips In a DA40 -- a low-drag plane that "really wants to fly" and "do...