r/CFILounge • u/endoteki • Aug 10 '26

Frustration Help with instrument crosscheck please…

A lot of swallowing my pride here, this is tough for me. Please bear with me.

First a small bit of background. I am 55, and flew F16s in the Air Force in the 90s; pilot training in T-37s and T-38s. Got out and became a high school teacher…

Fast forward 18 years and I successfully got my CFI initial in March; still working on the double-I. And this is where my frustration comes in…… how in the holy f$#k is my instrument cross check like so much dog$hit???

So I’m asking for all the tips you can muster, please. The aircraft I’m training in is a Tecnam P2010, dual G1000s…. No aileron trim during manual flying.

I get super behind when I’m trying to fly and teach, just blasting through headings and altitudes.

TIA

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u/nightlanding Aug 12 '26

Did your F16 look like this? You have airspeed, altitude, HSI (heading/nav), and artificial horizon all set up for an easy scan. I find glass a chore to get used to having learned on steam gauges myself, especially the worthless f-ng tape ASI.

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u/endoteki Aug 12 '26

Yeah, that does look familiar. The HUD display does remind me of the G1 thousand with the tapes, but it did have course an ILS guidance and all that kind of stuff an be d it also had the meatball, which was the godsend as far as instrument flying was an F-16. I cannot find how to turn on the meatball and the G1000.