Section 1 Overview ........................................................................................ 1
1.1 Unit Overview ............................................................................................................1
1.2 Getting Started .........................................................................................................2
Battery Installation ............................................................................................................... 2
Charging the Battery ............................................................................................................ 3
Changing Modes .................................................................................................................. 3
GPS Receiver Status ............................................................................................................. 3
1.3 Operation ...................................................................................................................4
Basic Navigation Controls ..................................................................................................... 4
'Home' Screen ...................................................................................................................... 5
Selecting a Function ............................................................................................................. 8
Scrolling ............................................................................................................................... 9
Option Menus ...................................................................................................................... 9
Data Entry .......................................................................................................................... 10
1.5 Using Map displays .................................................................................................11
Map Panning ..................................................................................................................... 11
Map Range ........................................................................................................................ 12
Map Overlays ..................................................................................................................... 12
2.1 Flight data ...............................................................................................................13
Data Fields ......................................................................................................................... 13
Numeric Flight Data ........................................................................................................... 13
2.2 hSi/Panel ..................................................................................................................14
Changing the CDI Scale ...................................................................................................... 14
Setting the Bug Indicator .................................................................................................... 14
Manually Setting a Course .................................................................................................. 14
Using the VNAV Feature ..................................................................................................... 15
2.4 waypoints ................................................................................................................16
Nearest Information ........................................................................................................... 17
Weather Information .......................................................................................................... 17
User Waypoints .................................................................................................................. 18
2.5 direct-to Navigation ...............................................................................................19
3.2 Flight Plan creation ................................................................................................21
3.4 Flight Plan Storage .................................................................................................23
3.6 Flight Plan deletion ................................................................................................24
3.7 approaches ..............................................................................................................25
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