Track Pointer and Flight Path Marker

In this video, PPL/IR Europe's Flight Operations and Competence lead, Timothy Nathan, talks about two of the most fantastic but less well-understood little aids provided with newer Electronic Flight Displays (EFDs) - also known as 'glass cockpits' - the 'Track Pointer' and 'Flight Path Marker'. Once you see these little gems you won't want to return to 'steam'!

[@henryhunter2918]

It’s generous of Timothy to credit me as I suspect for many this is common sense and they may do it instinctively anyway. If you have a track pointer, you can easily see drift at all times being just the difference between track and heading. Knowing you need 3x that for the outbound leg in the hold you just need difference between heading and course to be 3x drift. Since, when we are flying on instruments, our IQ is divided by three, it’s easier (at least for me) just to visualise this rather than doing the sums, by adding the 1x drift I can see between heading and track to the 2x I can see between track and course, and there’s your 1/3rd to 2/3rds ratio.

[@mikematthews9382]

Another nice video for consolidating real-world knowledge. The Henry Hunter technique is going to take a few repeat viewings before I get it though... 🤔

[@davejones542]

for the henry hunter holds - great tip. How fast were you flying that hold. Manual calculation for 120knots says wca=15 so triple would be 45 degree. I am assuming the wind is 20knots from 005 from the glass display for my calculation. You are showing triple as being 24 so wca = 8. Are you flying at 240knots

[@pplireurope]

The W/V in the video is 045/20, which gives a 120-knot WCA of around 8°. The Henry Hunter Technique is visual and very elegant and that is always a plus because it avoids any mental gymnastics when figuring out the hold.

[@davejones542]

@@pplireurope ok thank you. I was taking the glass display of wind for the direction relative to the heading bug and was getting 293+73 for that = 005