Advice on getting RNAV-proficient

[Canuck]

Tomorrow's pretty close to CAVU here in Eastern Ontario/West Quebec, so I'm planning to go up, fly out of terminal airspace to a small, uncontrolled airport (CYMW), and start getting proficient on IFR procedures with my new GTN 650 (I'm also booking an instructor in the next couple of weeks). Any advice for what I should try? Here are some of the things on my list:

- enroute, of course (I've already done that for two flights)
- fly one or two LNAV approaches with missed approach (the airport has one for each direction), at least one hand-flown
- try out the advisory +v guidance on the GTN to give me a pseudo-glidescope
- fly a hold (maybe a couple, with different entries; note that I don't have GPSS)
- maybe try the LPV approach at CYND on my way home, if they're not busy

What else is worth practising during my early self-familiarisation flights? I'd love to hear from others who've made the transition from many years of conventional IFR to RNAV—what caught you most by surprise? What tricks did it take you too long to figure out on your own?

I'm saving IFR approaches, where I have to switch from GPS to VLOC, for the next familiarisation flight.


Thanks, David

 

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