User manual
Table Of Contents
- PBY Catalina
- Introduction
- System requirements
- Credits
- Copyrights
- Contact support
- Models and versions
- Limitations
- Failure model and special features
- Aerosoft Sound Control
- Flight model
- Using the switches and knobs
- Interactive Checklist
- Avionics, 1940’s military cockpit
- Avionics, modern cockpit
- Engine Settings
- Mission
- Appendix A: Simplified checklist
- Appendix B: KX 165A TSO
- Appendix C: KLN-90B User Manual
- INTRODUCTION
- OVERVIEW
- DEFINITIONS:
- SYSTEM USE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES
- CALC: CALCULATOR PAGES
- STAT: STATUS PAGES
- SETUP: SETUP PAGES
- OTHER: OTHER PAGES
- TRIP: TRIP PLANNING PAGES
- MOD: MODE PAGES
- FPL: FLIGHT PLAN PAGE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES (right screen)
- APT: AIRPORT PAGES
- NEAREST Airport Pages
- VOR: VOR Page
- NDB: NDB Page
- INT: INTERSECTION PAGE
- SUPL: SUPPLEMENTAL PAGE (SUP)
- CTR: CENTER WAYPOINT PAGE
- REF: REFERENCE WAYPOINT PAGE
- ACTV: ACTIVE WAYPOINT PAGE (ACT)
- D/T: DISTANCE/TIME PAGES
- MESSAGE PAGE
- DIRECT-TO PAGE
Aerosoft PBY Catalina 1.00 Manual
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NEAREST Airport Pages
Fig 8.12
The nearest airport pages display information about the 9 airports nearest to your current location
in order of their nearness. An example of the nearest airport page 3 is presented in Fig 8.12 showing
the display format used on all 9 nearest airport pages. These pages are always updating so the
airports and their order will always be current.
The information on the nearest pages are "read only", they cannot be changed directly by the user.
There are 4 lines of information.
• Line 1: The left side of Line 1 displays the airport identifier code. The right side displays the
nearest airport page; shown as a boxed display. In Fig 8.12 the box displays NR 3, indicating
the viewed page contains information relating to the 3rd nearest airport to your current
location.
• Line 2: Displays the length in ft of the longest runway at the user-selected airport.
• Line 3: Displays the bearing to or from the airport from your current location in degrees
magnetic north. To and FR annunciations on the right of the line shows if to or from the
nearest airport.
• Line 4: Displays the distance in nm to the user-selected airport.
To view the nearest airport pages:
1. Display the APT 1 page using the RIGHT OUTER and INNER KNOBs. Ensure the RIGHT INNER
KNOB is in the out position.
2. Click on the left side of the RIGHT INNER KNOB (letter C) repeatedly to scroll down the
nearest airport list. The list is scrolled upwards by clicking on the right side of the RIGHT
INNER KNOB (letter D).
3. Clicking on the right side of the RIGHT INNER KNOB when the NR 1 page is displayed takes
you back to the APT 1 page.