Flying Garmin

Every pilot flying behind a Garmin panel has had the same two thoughts: Why is it doing that? And how do I do this? Flying Garmin answers both.
This is not a screen-by-screen tour of the avionics, and it is not another generic instrument textbook that devotes thirty pages to partial panel and three to GPS. It is a practical guide to flying IFR behind the Garmin G1000 and G1000 NXi, and the Cirrus Perspective, Perspective+, and Touch+ — written by an instructor with more than 6,000 hours of dual instruction in the right seat of these airplanes.
Thomas Daniel is a Platinum Cirrus Standardized Instructor Pilot, the 2023 North America CSIP of the Year, and Dean of the Advanced Avionics College at the Cirrus Pilot Proficiency Program. Fourteen chapters follow the shape of a real IFR flight: the user interface model, system components, key features, vertical navigation, instrument departures, en route and arrivals, instrument approaches, automation management, and malfunctions.
Then two chapters you won't find anywhere else. Traps covers the moments the system does something surprising at exactly the wrong time — auto-suspend, the localizer intercept, reloading an approach on the go. Annoyances names the design decisions that waste your attention, and tells you how to work around them.
Every chapter closes with Key Points. Embedded videos show the procedures being flown. Written for pilots and instructors in Technically Advanced Aircraft, it fills the gap between Garmin's 600-page reference manuals and instrument textbooks written for cockpits that nobody flies anymore.
"No one has written a pilot's guide to using Garmin avionics in as long as I can recall." — Chuck Cali, President, COPA Training Foundation