Event Details and Registration

This will be the featured pilot seminar during the Reid-Hillivew Airport Day on Saturday, July 8, 2017.

Paper charts and scratchpads on kneeboards have been fixtures in the general aviation cockpit for nearly a century. However, now, the digital revolution has penetrated this last bastion of traditional methods. Today, the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is taking the cockpit by storm. Thousands of pilots are finding that the new digital replacements for these tried and true methods offer a multitude of practical advantages over their paper predecessors. Come and learn from this highly experienced flight instructor and electrical engineer as he details how he did (and you can too) transition from traditional methods to a fully paperless cockpit. Examples will be drawn from the speaker’s personal experience with specific portable automation hardware and software (iPad, ForeFlight, and Stratus), but the principles detailed are applicable across a wide range of brands and types. Come and learn:

• Why paper charts are *not* required for private pilots
• How the digital cockpit provides advantages to the pilot not available from paper resources
• How the portable automation provides a level of situational awareness not previously available to the general aviation pilot
• How to arrange a digital cockpit to offer a level of reliability that exceeds that of its paper equivalents
• How modern software and hardware can provide highly accurate and useable backups to on-board, panel-mounted systems, including navigation, communication, and instrumentation (including sorely needed alternatives to those no-so-reliable vacuum-operated gyro instruments)
• How to arrange your cockpit so that you no longer need any paper: no charts, no A/FD, no scratchpad, and no (paper) checklists.
• Learn how you can develop your skills with these new technologies—in a simulator—*before* you go try them in airplane

The digital revolution has arrived in your lap. You need only to take advantage of it; enjoy the advantages of faster flight planning, digital weather briefings, rapid and easy weight and balance computations, and more accurate flight execution with less in-flight workload.
 

Seminar will be held at Trade Winds Aviation. From Highway 680, exit onto Capital Expressway. Travel Southeast on Capital Expressway. At Cunningham Ave. turn Right. Trade Winds Aviation is at the end of the road on the right. Be advised that parking will be limited. You may need to park away from the airport and walk in. Please allow extra time. 
 

Gene Hudson, CFI, CFII, MEI; FAA Safety Team Lead Representative; 18,000+ total time, over 16,000 hrs dual given; graduate work in Aviation/Aerospace Safety Systems; FAA National Safety Counselor of the Year, 2005; Western Region Flight Instructor of the Year, 2006; Assistant Chief Flight Instructor, Trade Winds Aviation

This seminar will be presented as part of the Reid-Hillview Airport Day on Saturday, July 8, 2017 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Airport Day will feature many fun events including 

• Tethered rides in the ReMax hot air balloon from 7:30 to 10:00 AM
• Display of new aircraft featuring Cessna TTx
• Display of vintage aircraft featuring 1941 Beech Staggerwing
• San Jose Metropolitan Band performance from 10:00 to 11:00 AM
• Hot San Jose Nights Classic Car Show

Please contact the office at 408-729-5100 for more information.

Trade Winds Aviation is an active center of flight training, aircraft sales, and maintenance located at the Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, CA. Established in 1988, Trade Winds Aviation continues to focus on the professional training of student pilots and advanced training for licensed pilots. We attribute our success to a strong commitment to safety, quality, and experience.