I gotta admit that I've never paid too much attention to the synthetic vision on the G3X when shooting an approach, other than glancing at the runway alignment, but that's mostly in smooth air. But I've never flown a coupled approach either, I suppose it would be much more distracting if you're just monitoring on a coupled approach. I'm just trying to keep up when hand flying in turbulence.
These are all hand flow, I don't seem to have the Vertical Speed Gain and Vertical Accel Gain dial in enough to trust it during approach. It likes to chase the GS when coupled. I'm all ears if anyone has some tips outside what is in the installation manual to get that set up.
Yesterday we had to divert because the RVR was 1300 and got to minimums and saw nothing...nada. Ended up in KMTW with low ceilings but decent vis and a bit a wind to keep the fog at bay that was starting to effect everywhere else.
This is not a matter of being able to execute the approach or skill...it has to do with background scenery, at low screen Hz, swaying back and forth with the yawing motion in turbulence. I didn't care for it, and will do some practice without the synthetic vision and see if it makes a difference. I absolutely love the syn vision when it is smooth...it is fantastic!
Does anyone know if the G3X Touch screens have a better refresh rate?
Maybe it was just the circumstance...I was also flying from the right seat and not shot an approach from over there in awhile. I had a newly instrument rated pilot in the left seat, try to get some quality actual time. The weather went south pretty fast (not forecast) and decided the situation was not build for learning experiences, so I decided to fly.
Here was our flight from MSN to ATW and divert to MTW -
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N904DC/history/20211224/2015Z/KMSN/KMTW I really want to go to GRB or OSH but they were going the way of ATW pretty fast. It did end up being a good learning experience for my left-seater, but not in the way I was hoping.
Here's what the weather was doing in ATW yesterday...you can see it dropped close to minimums after our departure from MSN and went below minimums right after we checked on with approach (only a 25 minute flight with tailwind)
https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=KATW&format=raw&hours=36&taf=off&layout=on
Maybe it's just me, but I hope the newer generations of the G3X are better. BTW I have everything Garmin and I'm definitely a Garmin Fanboy