Title:
In-Flight Terrain Awareness using Terrain and TAWS Displays
Topic:
A discussion of common database-driven terrain awareness functions and how to use them to increase the safety of your flights.
Brief Description:
Cockpit technology is becoming more sophisticated and more accessible, which is good news for GA pilots. When used properly, these tools increase our safety in the skies exponentially. One new category of information available to GA pilots is terrain awareness. Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems (TAWS) can vary from simple display of ground elevations to active alerting systems that warn when AGL drops below certain minimums. Newer GPS navigators, including many G1000 displays, include fine-grained displays of terrain and obstacles that can greatly improve the pilot's situational awareness, provided their capabilities and limitations are understood. The goals for all of these systems are to better inform the pilot about terrain separation and to prevent controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accidents.
In this seminar, SCFC CFII and technology expert Brian Eliot defines and examines the common database-driven terrain awareness functions: basic color-coded terrain and enhanced awareness via TAWS-B. Basic terrain awareness compares the aircraft's altitude and GPS position with detailed underlying 3D maps of terrain and obstacle elevations. TAWS-B adds to this a predictive estimate of aircraft trajectory and audible annunciations of terrain and obstacle hazards. Brian will offer guidance about how to use and interpret these tools in flight.
Presenter Brian Eliot is San Carlos Flight Center’s resident expert for IFR training and Garmin G1000 avionics. He has been flying since 1995 and received all his training in the Bay Area. Brian previously worked as a broadcast engineer, a software developer, and taught computer science at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He regularly presents at San Carlos Flight Center safety seminars and has a reputation for making complex concepts easy to learn and understand.
San Carlos Flight Center was voted Best Flight School in the US in the 2013 AOPA Flight Training Excellence Awards. We are committed to promoting safety in general aviation through our evening safety seminar programs. For more information about this and any of our weekly seminars, please visit
http://sancarlosflight.com/activities-and-events.
Location of Seminar:
San Carlos Flight Center
655 Skyway Rd
Suite 215
San Carlos, CA 94070
Directions to Venue:
Located in the Skyway Building, next to the Hiller Aviation Museum. Parking and entrance behind building. Suite 215 is upstairs in the northwest corner. Pilots who fly in should park in transient parking and call the Flight Center for a ride (650) 946-1700.
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Fly-in Seminar?:
Yes KSQL
Seating:
40
seats at the facility,
19
remaining for online registration.
Registration Information:
Seminar has passed.
Sponsoring Division:
FAASTeam
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
Hosted by San Carlos Flight Center
Equal Access Information:
The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) is committed to providing equal access to this meeting/event for all participants. If you need alternative formats or services because of a disability, please communicate your request as soon as possible with the person in the “Contact Information” area of the meeting/event notice. Note that two weeks is usually required to arrange services.
Credit Applicability:
1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
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