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Trimble 2000 Approach
Plus GPS
Introduction
The Piper Cheyenne is not exactly a new aircraft. Most of them were
built during the 70s and 80s of the last century. The models in this
package represent the Piper Cheyenne as it was built from 1981 on.
By that time, modern navigation systems like GPS (introduced 1995)
didn‘t exist and navigation on general aviation aircraft was done using
common NAV radios and ADFs.
Today, the situation is different. GPS receivers are very common on
general aviation aircraft and so, it‘s necessary to have such a device on
the Cheyenne too. Our choice was the Trimble 2000 Approach Plus
which is one of the earlier GPS receivers for aircraft. It doesn‘t come
with a moving map, like modern devices do, but it has all functions
available that are necessary for navigation today:
Updatable navigation database
Terminal procedures (SIDs , STARs and Approaches)
Holdings
DME arcs (as part of terminal procedures)
Procedure turns (as part of terminal procedures)
User-defined waypoints
Flight plan storage
All these major functions are available in the simulated GPS in the
Cheyenne package too. There are some differences though. A list of
those can be found in the chapter „Simulation vs. Reality“.
For a full description of all functions available in theTrimble 2000
Approach Plus GPS, consult the separate original reference manual.
This reference manual is available free of charge here:
ftp://stcpub2:austin@24.227.190.27/Publications/2000plus/82877.PDF
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