Practise the button pushing and the procedures at home, with a GFC 500 autopilot, G5 displays and New Zealand and US navigation data, and soon anywhere in the world through a Navigraph subscription, so your aircraft time goes on flying. Built page for page from the Garmin manuals for MyFlight's Archer, and it flies the Seneca too.
The 430W has a lot of knobs and a lot of pages. Learning them in the aeroplane at $300 an hour is the expensive way. Garmin's own 430 trainer is 2007 Windows software and hard to get running now; this one runs in any browser with current New Zealand and US databases, and soon anywhere in the world through a Navigraph subscription.
Power it up, load the Ardmore RNP, fly it to minima with the autopilot, then do it again. The Help tab walks through each task with screenshots, and point-and-click help explains any key or field.
Save a scenario that lines the aircraft up for a procedure, set the failures you want, and send students home to fly it. When a student sends feedback, the unit's state travels with it.
Every New Zealand SID, STAR and approach from the AIP plates, and the FAA's US procedures, with the AIRAC data the real unit flies, holds, arcs and procedure turns included. Fly the whole route, not a cut-down one. Soon, anywhere in the world through a Navigraph subscription.
On Altivy LMS, switch the trainer on for your organisation and every member opens it from the LMS menu, already signed in, at no charge per student.
Power-up and the self-test, COM and VLOC tuning with the 30-second revert, the NAV, WPT, AUX and NRST groups, the flight plan and the catalogue, Direct-To, procedures, OBS and SUSP, the messages: built from the Garmin 400W Series Pilot's Guide. Anything the trainer does not model says so on the page it would appear on. Nothing is faked.
The GMC 507 controller runs its preflight test, engages in ROL and PIT, flies HDG, NAV, APR with glidepath or glideslope capture, ALT, VS, IAS and the altitude pre-select, drops a lost source to ROL with the amber flash, and holds MAXSPD and MINSPD. The G5 shows the status box, the attitude and the HSI; pick the Aspen EFD1000 instead if that is what you fly.
Start parked, lined up or airborne at any New Zealand aerodrome, with the wind you want. Speed the clock up for the cruise, slow it down for the approach. Fail the GPS, the VOR or the autopilot and see what the unit and the instruments do about it. Instructors save scenarios for the whole school.
No card for the trial. Cancel any time and keep access to the end of what you have paid for. Prices are in New Zealand dollars for New Zealand and in US dollars everywhere else: the sign-up page shows the prices for where you are.
Prices in New Zealand dollars including GST for New Zealand, and in US dollars everywhere else, by where you sign up from; paid by card through Stripe on MyFlight's account. Current prices, and any card processing fee, are always shown on the sign-up page.
Three days free, no card. Then $8 a month or $80 a year in New Zealand (US$6 or US$60 elsewhere), and cancel whenever you like.