Garmin G1000 PDAs & Smartphones User Manual


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Garmin G1000 Pilot’s Guide for Cessna Nav III
190-00498-07 Rev. A136
FLIGHT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
OVERVIEW
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS
EIS
AUDIO PANEL
& CNS
FLIGHT
MANAGEMENT
HAZARD
AVOIDANCE
AFCS
ADDITIONAL
FEATURES
APPENDICESINDEX
5.2 USING MAP DISPLAYS
Map displays are used extensively in the G1000 to provide situational awareness in flight. Most G1000 maps
can display the following information:
•Airports, NAVAIDs, airspaces, airways, land data
(highways, cities, lakes, rivers, borders, etc.) with
names
•Map Pointer information (distance and bearing
to pointer, location of pointer, name, and other
pertinent information)
•Maprange
•Wind direction and speed
•Maporientation
•Iconsforenabledmapfeatures
•Aircrafticon(representingpresentposition)
•Navrangering
•Fuelrangering
•Flightplanlegs
•Userwaypoints
•Trackvector
•Topographyscale
•Topographydata
•Obstacledata
MAP ORIENTATION
Maps are shown in one of four different orientation options, allowing flexibility in determining aircraft
position relative to other items on the map (north up) or for determining where map items are relative to where
the aircraft is going (track up, desired track up, or heading up). The map orientation is shown in the upper
right corner of the map.
Figure 5-3 Map Orientation
•Northup(NORTHUP)alignsthetopofthemapdisplaytonorth(defaultsetting).
•Trackup(TRKUP)alignsthetopofthemapdisplaytothecurrentgroundtrack.
•AllMapGroupPages(MAP)
•AllWaypointGroupPages(WPT)
•AUX-TripPlanning
•AllNearestGroupPages(NRST)
•FlightPlanPages(FPL)
•Direct-toWindow
•PFDInsetMap
•ProcedureLoadingPages
The information in this section applies to the following maps unless otherwise noted:
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