Just thought I’d pass along a quick mention of the S-Tec 55 CD trainer. I happened to look at the web site and saw that it is downloadable as well. Slick tutorial that “walks” you through a flight and overviews by example the functions of the autopilot. Nice tool. It’s at
http://www.s-tec.com/cd55.html
For the more mechanically challenged pilots (ie. the we don’t need stinkin’ engine soaring crowd!), I offer a very cool but potentially very time consuming ;-> java applet that you might enjoy at
http://www.danb.dircon.co.uk/hg/hg.htm
Absolutely incredible what a talented programmer can do!
Jeff
SR22 - N748CD