Over 1,700 LPV Approaches Now Available, More Coming

Thousands of WAAS capable Garmin GPSs are shipping to eager pilots... but to date there's been no single, comprehensive source of WAAS information available, making it hard to learn to fly these new approaches.

Max Trescott's latest CD-ROM course, which runs on Windows and Macintosh, makes it easy to learn all of the details of flying with WAAS. Designed for the Garmin 430W, 530W, 480, G900X and G1000, the course leads you step-by-step through flying these approaches. Videos demonstrate the flying of actual approaches, and software simulators let you practice loading and flying these approaches.

WAAS is the FAA's Wide Area Augmentation System, which enhances basic GPS accuracy to allow GPS approaches with vertical guidance to be safely flown to as low as 200 feet above the ground. This makes it possible to design ILS quality approaches for thousands of airports without adding expensive ground-based navigational aids. Already, more than 1,700 of these LPV (Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance) and LNAV/VNAV (Lateral Navigation with Vertical Navigation) approaches are available in the US, and the FAA is committed to designing an additional 300 new approaches each year.

More than 50,000 installed Garmin 430 and 530 GPS receivers are upgradeable to WAAS capability, making these approaches readily available to thousands of pilots. All new 430W and 530W units are WAAS capable, as are all G900X glass cockpits for experimental aircraft. The G1000 glass cockpit in 2007 model Cessnas is also WAAS capable, and other manufacturers of G1000-equipped aircraft are expected to offer this capability in their new aircraft soon. No announcements have been made on upgrading older G1000’s for WAAS.

The course is taught by Master CFIs Max Trescott and Susan Parson, and covers the "gotchas" that can trick even experienced GPS pilots. It features Max Trescott's Searchable Learning System that lets you keyword search the entire course to quickly find any information.

The course includes:

• Multiple scenarios that give practice entering approaches
• Printable list of every LPV and LNAV/VNAV WAAS approach in the US
• More than four hours of material
• Keyword searchable slides and transcripts
• Flexible navigation for using the course in any order
• Optional quizzes to reinforce key points

Max Trescott’s WAAS and GPS CD-ROM Course carries a suggested retail price of $99.95.

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