Approaches using Avidyne IFD / Aspen Pro / KFC 200

[BaldEagle]

Anyone flying with this combination?  I just replaced my GNS430 with the IFD440 and did my first instrument approach (to my home airport) at the end of a 2 hour IFR cross country (edit: VMC conditions) that resulted in a deviation and a chunk of lost time this morning filling in my first ever ASRS NASA report.  Fun.  Now normally I'd be learning new avionics with an instructor or safety pilot that is familiar with the equipment -- which would, of course, also be contrary to CDC social distancing guidelines.  And my plan B of doing practice approaches under VFR prior to this trip didn't happen because of work commitments.  Anyway, enough of the excuses.  It was poor judgement on my part.

Some questions:

With the GNS 430 I had a preference of flying the GPS approaches with the Nav page showing the CDI -- so if I lost the Aspen I could continue the approach using the GNS CDI and track.  There doesn't seem to an equivalent on the IFD?

The autopilot (GPSS mode) was sloppy tracking the lateral path flying both from the IF to the FAF and the final approach segment.  After doing some cursory research the advice from Avidyne is (from memory) to set Nav source on the Aspen to GPS1, disabling GPSS, and on the autopilot setting Nav / Approach mode prior to the FAF -- which I haven't tried yet.  It seems that the latency from the IFD sending data to the Aspen, which in turns sends the signal back to the KFC via the EA100 doesn't allow GPSS to scale as the final approach segment is tightening.

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear how other people fly approaches using this combination of equipment (or point me to some resources) as it may save me some time.  I've spent hours with the simulator app and have digested the manual and watched all of the Avidyne training videos, but this is evidently still insufficient.

[1964-M20E]

go into the settings menu.

AUX

SETUP

DATABLOCK SETUP

Left or right data blocks and find GPS CDI select this and it will place a CDI on your screen.

 

 

[EricJ]

There may be some configuration settings in the IFD that aren't quite right yet.   It took me a bit to get mine settled as well.