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When you're flying an IFR approach with a GPS navigator, you can use RNAV for the transitions, but need to switch to the ground ILS transmitter for the actual approach (they both use the same CDI on many planes, so it's easy to miss). The GTN 650 that I'm installing in my plane will switch CDI mode automatically under certain conditions, but it's not guaranteed. In the past, people could practice the hell out of these kinds of details in FlightGear (tuning, twisting, and identifying all the navaids, adding crosswind corrections, etc) so that they were habits when I flew them for real, but we can't practice RNAV procedures like this (or many others).<ref>{{cite web | |||
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this is something we need to address, as our GA aircraft will otherwise become more and more old-fashioned.<ref>{{cite web | this is something we need to address, as our GA aircraft will otherwise become more and more old-fashioned.<ref>{{cite web | ||
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The G1000 is a fairly significant piece of computer hardware that we're going to emulate. It's not going to be "free" particularly for those on older hardware that's already struggling. However, hopefully we can offload a chunk of the logic (route management, autopilot/flight director) to the core, and do things like offline generation of terrain maps to minimie the impact.<ref>{{cite web | |||
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|title = <nowiki> Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: FlightGear and the changing state of | |||
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|author = <nowiki> Stuart Buchanan </nowiki> | |||
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