This thread is not intended to advocate for IFR flying in the -12. That topic has been covered in great detail already. What I’d like to show is “make-believe” IFR using the basic Skyview panel, either single screen or dual screen.
So, this is for fun and education, not for flying IFR.
Some have discussed installing an expensive IFR navigator. Basically, besides the cost, there isn’t room for it or electrical capability for it on the legacy -12. However, using the iPad and FF, one can effectively simulate loading an IFR approach onto the SV very similar to loading an approach from a navigator.
As you know, the Dynon data base does not include approaches. Foreflight does though, and you can upload a flight plan including approaches to the Dynon very similar as you would from a navigator. Also, if you have the Seattle Avionics charts and plates on a USB stick in the Dynon port you can load the approach plate on your primary or second screen. Then you can watch the little magenta airplane fly the approach overlaid on the plate. You can see that on the iPad too, but only if you have the Professional FF subscription.
Here is the iPad with a flight plan including an approach. Just put in a beginning and destination. Then pick an approach using the Procedure button and add it to the flight plan. All the fixes are put on the map, you don’t need to enter them separately.
Next, upload the flight plan to the SV using the SV wi-fi. The SV map will show the route and approach fixes just like it appears on the iPad. The hold entry at ZOLGI will be shown in gray and the AP won’t fly that, you would have to fly the hold by hand.
To do this with the AP, you will need to be familiar with the expert mode.
This next pic is my right screen and shows Iron Mike flying the flight plan. I have the PFD and MAP with flight plan on the primary screen.
Now Mike has turned the corner at ZOLGI and is tracking toward the FAF at CEBOD.
Time to descend to the crossing altitude at CEBOD. SV can’t control the descent, you must manage that manually. Set the new altitude, push the nose down button and manage the VS using the VS bug until you have the cyan arc hovering at CEBOD — and etc. to continue to your minimums.
You can do this with one screen as well. Just figure out a way to manage it easily. And it is pretty easy.
I have an instrument rating but am not current and don’t plan to be again at this point in my life. This just occasionally adds a little spice to my VFR flights!
Comments welcome -- be kind all you hard IFR drivers.
So, this is for fun and education, not for flying IFR.
Some have discussed installing an expensive IFR navigator. Basically, besides the cost, there isn’t room for it or electrical capability for it on the legacy -12. However, using the iPad and FF, one can effectively simulate loading an IFR approach onto the SV very similar to loading an approach from a navigator.
As you know, the Dynon data base does not include approaches. Foreflight does though, and you can upload a flight plan including approaches to the Dynon very similar as you would from a navigator. Also, if you have the Seattle Avionics charts and plates on a USB stick in the Dynon port you can load the approach plate on your primary or second screen. Then you can watch the little magenta airplane fly the approach overlaid on the plate. You can see that on the iPad too, but only if you have the Professional FF subscription.
Here is the iPad with a flight plan including an approach. Just put in a beginning and destination. Then pick an approach using the Procedure button and add it to the flight plan. All the fixes are put on the map, you don’t need to enter them separately.
Next, upload the flight plan to the SV using the SV wi-fi. The SV map will show the route and approach fixes just like it appears on the iPad. The hold entry at ZOLGI will be shown in gray and the AP won’t fly that, you would have to fly the hold by hand.
To do this with the AP, you will need to be familiar with the expert mode.
This next pic is my right screen and shows Iron Mike flying the flight plan. I have the PFD and MAP with flight plan on the primary screen.
Now Mike has turned the corner at ZOLGI and is tracking toward the FAF at CEBOD.
Time to descend to the crossing altitude at CEBOD. SV can’t control the descent, you must manage that manually. Set the new altitude, push the nose down button and manage the VS using the VS bug until you have the cyan arc hovering at CEBOD — and etc. to continue to your minimums.
You can do this with one screen as well. Just figure out a way to manage it easily. And it is pretty easy.
I have an instrument rating but am not current and don’t plan to be again at this point in my life. This just occasionally adds a little spice to my VFR flights!
Comments welcome -- be kind all you hard IFR drivers.
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