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Every new small airline comes standard equipped with the same kind of flight computers and autopilots that you find in commercial passenger aircraft.This provides basic common-sense instruction in the use of cockpit automation equipment now available on smaller propeller aircraft. The entire use of cockpit automation is covered as it happens in an actual flight, from preflight, taxi-out, take-off, cruise, descent, and landing.General aviation cockpit automation equipment covered includes: IFR GPS, Autopilots, Electronic Flight Instruments, Multifunction Navigation Displays, Weather Radar, Ground Proximity Warning Systems, Traffic Collision Avoidance System, Radio Altimeters, Fuel Management Computers, Engine Monitors.Casner, Stephen M. is the author of 'Pilot's Guide to the Modern Airline Cockpit', published 2001 under ISBN 9780813810119 and ISBN 0813810116.
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