Flying the Garmin GFC 500 Autopilot (webinar recording)
The full-featured GFC 500 autopilot provides thousands of existing fixed-wing general aviation aircraft with a simple, light-weight and cost-effective autopilot upgrade path. The GFC 500 also has integration potential with the G500 TXi/G600 TXi, G500/G600 as well as G3X Touch flight displays, Garmin navigators, as well as a variety of third-party flight displays, instruments and navigation sources.
The GFC 500 is designed for light single-engine piston fixed wing aircraft and boasts traditional autopilot capabilities along with Indicated airspeed climbs/descents, Electronic Stability and Protection, as well as built-in roll steering.
The GFC 500 also incorporates solid-state attitude and robust self-monitoring capabilities to provide superior autopilot performance, greater reliability and safety benefits. As Garmin continues to broaden its aircraft approval list for the GFC 500, join us for this webinar presentation to learn if a Garmin autopilot is right for you.
Why doesn’t Garmin publish a pre-takeoff AP test checklist in the AFM?
Awesome Video! I'm having the GFC500 & 2 - GI275's installed in my Piper Arrow and I can't wait to try the System out!
Nice work on the tutorial, learned several things I missed in the manual.
i have flown with this almost three years and its performance has been well beyond my expectations- i still have a lot to learn though
Great video. Saved.
Hi, could you please post a link to the slides? Thanks.
I’d probably create a laminated checklist for all these modes
Is it possible to get a copy?
Were you able to create the checklist(s)? If so, can you please share? Thanks.
The Airplane Flight Manual Supplement has nice itemized checklists for all procedures, I just copied them and put them on 1 page.
Understood. Thanks!
GI 275 is a good example of how to put too much information, on a too small of a display….
Maybe they should have columns of green monochrome streaming numbers coming down like The Matrix…..
11/21/2022 Please don't say "vertical speed rate," speed is a rate, and vertical speed rate is acceleration, i.e., the derivative of speed/velocity.