Springs Aviation

• Aircraft, All (except Sweet Pea, 62470)
• When the interior checklist tells you to listen for the avionics cooling fan, that's not the noise you're hearing. You're hearing the electronic gyro in the Turn Coordinator. In Sweet Pea, the cooling fan does turn on, but in all the other aircraft, you'd have to turn on the avionics switch - which I seldom do.
• Aircraft, Queen Vic (1025V)
• The Garmin 430. 430s set the screen automatically (backlight and contrast). I haven't figured out how to make it default to manual - and I'm not sure you can. But manual settings are the key. In the auto mode, the screen will start to fade from the top and bottom toward the center. That's a bummer because it's not just your GPS, it's also your COMM 1 and NAV 1.
• Go into "DISPLAY" and change "Auto" to "Manual", then adjust as shown in the picture below (roughly, doesn't have to be exact). Screen should remain readable for entire flight.
• Don't know how to do it?  You can Google it, but it's the fourth "page" of the "AUX" chapter. If you have no idea of what i'm talking about, you should learn the 430.  They are highly proliferated among GA.
• You can also ask me, of course.

• Checklists:
• Go to Our Fleet
• Contact Springs Aviation / Hours
• You can contact me directly: 719-505-5434
• Flight Training
• Becoming a Private Pilot
• Getting your Instrument Rating
• Mountain Flying Course
• Holding short - how to do it
• Instructor Tools Folder.
• Map to Springs Aviation
• If driving in
• If flying in
• POHs - go to the POH page
• Runup - parking diagram
• Schedule, online
• Testing, FAA written tests
• Website
• Weight and Balance
• All aircraft, here is an example

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