Webinar Video: Beyond the Buttons — Mastering Your Modern Autopilot

Modern autopilots can reduce workload and help you stay ahead of the airplane, but only when you understand what they’re doing—and what they might do next. An incomplete checkout or misunderstanding of the system can add workload when you least need it.

Join PilotWorkshops’ Ryan Koch for Beyond the Buttons: Mastering Your Modern Autopilot, a webinar exploring the habits pilots need to get more from today’s autopilots, stay ahead of changing modes, and recognize when the system isn’t doing what they intended.

Ryan leads the development of PilotWorkshops’ online training courses and pilot-friendly manuals. An active instrument flight instructor and flight simulator expert, he has developed courses including Instrument Rating Accelerator, Private Pilot: The Missing Lessons, Garmin GTN: Next Level, and Advanced IFR.

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Eric Radtke

It was his first airplane trip at age seven that made Eric decide to become a pilot. "While boarding the airplane, a flight attendant noticed my interest in the flight deck and urged me to go talk to the pilot. I give a lot of credit to that pilot for my career choice." Eric earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and went on to an airline career. He learned to fly at Sporty’s as part of the University of Cincinnati’s Professional Pilot Program, an initiative he later directed.Eric now serves as General Manager of the PilotWorkshops brand and manages Sporty’s media network including FlightTrainingCentral.com. In addition, Eric serves as a Captain in a Cincinnati-based corporate flight department.

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