I?ll readily admit I'm old school. But, I?ve been flying glass for a long time both in my RV, while I was at the airlines and still in some mighty fancy corporate planes with way more stuff than anybody should be legal to play with.
I use Foreflight with all the bells and whistles and today?s situational awareness has never been better.
However, I use all this stuff that can display georeferenced plates and I think, big deal. Why?
During my ?professional and still in the corporate world, we look at the plate, brief the plate, set up the cockpit for the approach and put the plate away. Georeferenced plates are gee whiz but to me add zero to my already vast amount of SA on all the other displays in the cockpit.
So I?m wondering, what?s the advantage of watching the little blue plane crawl across the plate if you?re actually shooting an approach right down to minimums.
For me, all the important stuff is right in front of me and I have everything I NEED to see and know already set up.
What am I missing here?
I use Foreflight with all the bells and whistles and today?s situational awareness has never been better.
However, I use all this stuff that can display georeferenced plates and I think, big deal. Why?
During my ?professional and still in the corporate world, we look at the plate, brief the plate, set up the cockpit for the approach and put the plate away. Georeferenced plates are gee whiz but to me add zero to my already vast amount of SA on all the other displays in the cockpit.
So I?m wondering, what?s the advantage of watching the little blue plane crawl across the plate if you?re actually shooting an approach right down to minimums.
For me, all the important stuff is right in front of me and I have everything I NEED to see and know already set up.
What am I missing here?