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to Ulysses, luring him from his course and
into danger. Case in point: I was returning to my home airport, which lies just to
the west of the Washington, D.C., Special
Flight Rules Area (SFRA), with my newly
installed, IFR-certified Garmin GPS 175
navigator and was eager to see how it
worked with the 10.5-inch Garmin G3X
flight display. As I maneuvered in VFR
conditions to intercept an extended
centerline to the active runway I was
spending a lot of time head-down playing with my new toy-so much so that I
didn't realize that I had violated the special rules airspace when I dipped into the
SFRA by approximately 1.5 nautical miles.
Contributing to the situation, and
unbeknownst to me at the time, was the
fact that the new avionics installation,
with its attendant software upgrade,
had wiped out my programmed SFRA
airspace alerts. The fundamental flaw,
however, was that I had allowed myself
to be distracted by the new avionics and
abandoned what should be first and
foremost for all of us flying in VFR conditions: basic pilotage. It's critical that we
remain vigilant about maintaining situational awareness by looking outside
the cockpit to reference landmarks and
checkpoints. Doing so certainly would
have saved my bacon in this instance.
In hindsight, it also would have been
smart of me to fly a dedicated avionics
checkout with a safety pilot on board to
provide backup while I was head-down.
Beware the song of the Sirens.
AOPA

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MIKE FILUCCI is the former vice

president of AOPA's flight operations
department and a retired American
Airlines captain.

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