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Flight Planning
Overview
SECTION 3 FLIGHT PLANNING
3.1 INTRODUCTION
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Garmin aera 500 Series Pilot’s Guide
Index
Changing the information shown in the flight plan data fields:
1) From the ‘Home’ Screen, touch the Active FPL Icon.
Or:
a) From the ‘Home’ Screen, touch Tools > FPL List.
b) Touch the desired Saved Flight Plan from the list. An option menu
appears.
c) Touch the 'Review Flight Plan' menu option.
Appendices
The Active and Saved Flight Plan Data Fields can be changed by touching the Data
Field Buttons at the top of the flight plan.
Additional Features
DATA FIELDS
Hazard Avoidance
Whenever an approach is loaded into the active flight plan it replaces the destination
airport with a sequence of waypoints for the selected approach. The airport must have
a published instrument approach and only the final course segment (usually from final
approach fix to missed approach point) of the published approach is available in the
aera.
Flight Planning
Up to 50 flight plans with up to 300 waypoints each can be created and stored
in memory. One flight plan can be activated at a time and becomes the active flight
plan. The active flight plan is erased when the destination is reached and the system
is turned off. When storing flight plans with an approach, the aera uses the waypoint
information from the current database to define the waypoints. If the database is
changed or updated, the aera automatically updates the information if the procedure
has not been modified. If an approach is no longer available, the procedure is deleted
from the affected stored flight plan(s), and an alert is displayed.
GPS Navigation
Flight planning on the aera consists of building a flight plan by entering waypoints
one at a time and inserting approaches as needed. The flight plan is displayed on
maps using different line widths, colors, and types, based on the type of leg and the
segment of the flight plan currently being flown.
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