Smartglide

Aviate and Navigate

1. Autopilot ON - Fly to Airport

2. Smartglide ON - When over Airport

3. Autopilot OFF - When ready to land

Communicate

4. Optional

Aircraft information

This guide is printed and in the cockpit for use by a non-pilot and available online by searching for “larrys-airplane.blogspot.com” at the Smartglide post.

This is a Van’s RV10. The tail number is N14EW. 

The Garmin avionics include a multi-screen G3X Touch system with a GTN 650Xi GPS/Nav/Com and a GMC 507 Autopilot.

The avionics software has Garmin’s Smartglide.

The engine is a Lycoming IO-540.

Cockpit layout with simplified names for key components:

(Insert wide angle picture of panel labeled with names like Main Screen, Map Screen, Autopilot, Radio, Throttle, etc).