Garmin G1000 PDAs & Smartphones User Manual


 
190-00498-07 Rev. A
Garmin G1000 Pilot’s Guide for Cessna Nav III
SYSTEM
OVERVIEW
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS
EIS
AUDIO PANEL
& CNS
FLIGHT
MANAGEMENT
HAZARD
AVOIDANCE
AFCS
ADDITIONAL
FEATURES
APPENDICES INDEX
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HAZARD AVOIDANCE
Figure 6-102 Panning on the Weather Data Link (FIS-B) Page)
Instructions for
Viewing METAR
and TAF Text
Airport Selected
with Map
Pointer
REGIONAL RADAR PRECIPITATION
NOTE: Regional Radar Precipitation data cannot be displayed at the same time as terrain.
FIS-BregionalradarprecipitationisbasedonWSR-88D,orNEXRAD(NEXt-generationRADar),anetwork
ofhigh-resolutionDopplerradarsystemsthatareoperatedbytheNationalWeatherService(NWS).The
maximum rangeofasingle NEXRAD radarsiteis250 nm. Inadditionto a widearrayofservices,the
NEXRADnetworkprovidesimportantinformationaboutsevereweatherandairtrafcsafety.
Radarprecipitationdataisnotreal-time.Thelapsedtimebetweencollection,processing,anddissemination
ofcompositeradarimagescanbesignicantandmaynotreectthecurrentradarsynopsis.Due tothe
inherentdelaysandtherelativeageofthedata,itshouldbeusedforlong-rangeplanningpurposesonly.
NeveruseNEXRADdataoranyradardatatopenetratehazardousweather.Rather,useitinanearly-warning
capacityofpre-departureandenrouteevaluation.