Garmin G1000H Marine Radio User Manual


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Garmin G1000H
™
Pilot’s Guide for the Bell 407GX
190-01255-00 Rev. B142
FLIGHT MANAGEMENT
5.2 USING MAP DISPLAYS
Map displays are used extensively in the system to provide situational awareness in flight. Most system 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.
•Desiredtrackup(DTKUP)alignsthetopofthemapdisplaytothedesiredcourse.
•Headingup(HDGUP)alignsthetopofthemapdisplaytothecurrentaircraftheading.
•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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