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Garmin G1000H
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HAZARD AVOIDANCE
SECTION 6 HAZARD AVOIDANCE
The G1000H hazard avoidance features are designed to provide advisory information of potential hazards to
flight safety associated with weather, terrain, and air traffic.
This section is divided into the following groups:
Weather
•GDL69H/69AHXMWXSatelliteWeather(Optional)
•GSR56HGFDSWorldwideWeather(Optional)
Terrain Avoidance
•HelicopterTerrainAwarenessWarningSystem(HTAWS)
Traffic
•TIS(TrafcInformationService)
•GarminGTS800TrafcAdvisorySystem(TAS)(Optional)
6.1 XM WX SATELLITE WEATHER
NOTE: XM WX Satellite Weather data provides information for avoiding hazardous weather. It is not meant
for use to penetrate hazardous weather.
OptionalXM WX SatelliteWeather isprovidedthroughtheGDL 69H/69AH,aremote-mounted data-link
satellitereceiver.ReceivedgraphicalweatherinformationandassociatedtextisdisplayedontheMultiFunction
Display (MFD)and thePrimaryFlight Display(PFD) InsetMap. The GDL69AH canalso receive SiriusXM
entertainment services. Bothweather dataand entertainmentprogrammingoperate inthe S-bandfrequency
rangetoprovidecontinuousreceptioncapabilitiesatanyaltitudethroughoutNorthAmerica.
ServicesfromSiriusXMaresubscription-based.Formoreinformationonspecicservicepackages,visitwww.
siriusxm.com.
ACTIVATING SERVICES
BeforeXMWXSatelliteWeathercanbeused,theservicemustbeactivated.Serviceisactivatedbyproviding
SiriusXMwithcodedIDsuniquetotheinstalledGDL69AH.SiriusXMSatelliteRadioandXMWXSatellite
WeatherserviceseachhavecodedIDs.TheDataandAudioRadioIDsmustbeprovidedtoXMSatelliteRadio
toactivatetheweatherserviceandentertainmentsubscriptions,respectively.TheseIDsarelocatedon:
•ThelabelonthebackoftheDataLinkReceiver
•TheXMInformationPageontheMFD(Figure6-1)
•TheXMSatelliteRadioActivationInstructionsincludedwiththeunit(availableatwww.garmin.com,P/N
190-00355-04)
ContacttheinstalleriftheAudioandDataRadioIDscannotbelocated.