User Guide

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Garmin G1000 Pilot’s Guide for the Diamond DA42
• Deleting a stored flight plan
• Deleting all stored flight plans
• Sorting stored flight plans by comment
SOFTKEY OPERATIONS
Creating a new flight plan:
1) From the Flight Plan Catalog Page, press the NEW Softkey. A blank flight plan page is displayed for the first
empty storage location.
2) Enter the identifier, facility, or city name of the departure waypoint.
3) Press the ENT Key.
4) Enter the identifier for each additional flight plan waypoint.
5) Once all waypoints have been entered, press the FMS Knob to store the flight plan and return to the Flight Plan
Catalog Page.
Activating (begin navigating) an existing flight plan:
1) With the desired flight plan highlighted, press the ACTIVE Softkey. The ‘Activate Stored Flight Plan?’ window
appears.
2) With ‘OK’ highlighted, press the ENT Key to activate the flight plan. To cancel the operation, highlight ‘CANCEL’
and press the ENT Key.
Inverting and activating a flight plan:
1) Press the INVERT Softkey. The ‘Invert and activate stored flight plan?’ window is displayed.
2) With ‘OK’ highlighted, press the ENT Key. To cancel the operation, highlight ‘CANCEL’ and press the ENT Key.
Editing a flight plan:
1) From the Flight Plan Catalog Page, press the FMS Knob to activate the cursor.
2) Highlight the desired flight plan.
3) Press the EDIT Softkey.
4) To add a waypoint to the flight plan, select the point in the plan where the new waypoint is to be added. if an
existing waypoint is highlighted, the new waypoint is placed directly in front of this waypoint.
5) Enter the identifier, facility, or city of the new waypoint.
6) Press the ENT Key. The new waypoint now exists in the flight plan.
Copying a flight plan to another flight plan catalog location:
1) From the Flight Plan Catalog Page, press the FMS Knob to activate the cursor.
2) Highlight the desired flight plan.
3) Press the COPY Key. A ‘Copy to flight plan?’ confirmation window is displayed.