The whole ATC-communication from the Gate to the Runway, From the Sky to Land, From Taxi To Gate.Request clearance for departure, takeoff, taxi and more… 20,000 Airports + World SceneryĪccurate Worldwide scenery coverage of the ENTIRE world.
You can fly over your house or even your local school Full ATC Functions The choice is yours… Land at Your Local Airport - Why Not Fly over Your House?Ģ0,000 + real world airports in the full scenery set. Fly Different Helicoptersįly a medical helicopter and land on a remote snow covered mountain, or how about taking charge with the latest military Westland Lynx. You can start flying with over 120 aircraft that includes the 1903 Wright Flyer, Ornithopters, a 747, A320, Boeing 777, Airbus 380, various military jets and several light singles. I’m sure you’ll even sell a few more GTN units if pilots have the ability to try them out on their home simulators first.Test Your Skills by Flying 120+ Different Planes You’ve got the know-how and you clearly see the benefit of using flight simulators with your apps to improve the training experience. If this is an issue about pricing, I’m sure most pilots would be glad to pay for an in-app purchase to add this capability. The same implementation here would improve this app dramatically. It simply and easily interfaces over wifi with X-Plane and receives position updates from X-Plane. The Garmin Pilot app has this exact mode and it is an indispensable tool for learning how the app responds when you’re in a real cockpit.
What’s especially frustrating about this missing feature is that Garmin definitely knows how to do this.
What this app needs is an interface to a flight simulator like X-Plane so that you can fly a simulated aircraft and learn how to use the GTN at the same time. But as an actual training tool, it is extremely limited because the flight simulation is incomplete to the point of being basically useless. But that’s a problem - if you are providing a product that is supposed to TRAIN users on the real thing, you had better make sure you got everything right to avoid negative training!Īs an emulation of a GTN navigator, this app is great. I have to get back in my airplane and see how the real thing works though to be sure now. It also seems to have some other obscure problems, like “Graphically Edit Flight Plan Mode” which does not seem to operate correctly according to the manual. How hard is that to add a start-up field that says “Starting Location”? I’ll answer - it’s NOT. That wouldn’t be so bad if you could actually start it on the map where you want. It closes down and starts up again when you come back. That leads to the second problem: if you leave the simulator to do something else, it doesn’t keep running in the background. The only way to get the simulator anywhere is to ‘fly’ it there, in real time (at up to 999 knots, and that still takes a while). It always starts somewhere in Kansas, I assume where the Garmin offices are. This is excellent for training, although using the simulator is almost useless if you want to practice on actual routes you might use or local area stuff, because you can’t change where the simulator starts.
Thank you Garmin for providing this ‘free’ trainer (although it’s not really free since we pay through the nose for your hardware and databases (even though those are provided by the government)). This app should not be used for actual navigation purposes. * This app contains simulated data and does not receive data from or interact with real Garmin avionics. * Notes: The GTN 650 / 750 Trainer runs on Apple iPad 2 and newer.
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