Pilot's Guide

4-1190-00601-02 Rev. H
Garmin G500/600 Pilot’s Guide
CoverTOC
Foreword
Sec 1
System
Sec 2
PFD
Sec 3
MFD
Sec 4
Hazard
Avoidance
Sec 5
Additional
Features
Sec 6
Annun.
& Alerts
Sec 7
Symbols
Sec 8
Glossary Appendix A
Appendix B
Index
4 HAZARD AVOIDANCE
The G500/600 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:
Terrain Avoidance
• Terrain Proximity
• TAWS-B (Optional)
• Terrain-SVT™ (Optional)
Traffic Avoidance
• Traffic Advisory System (Optional)
• Traffic Information Service (TIS) (Optional - GTX 33/330 Transponder
required)
• ADS-B (Optional - GDL 88 required)
Weather
• GDL 69/69A XM
®
Satellite Weather (Optional)
• Weather Radar (Optional)
• GFDS Weather with the Iridium
®
satellite system through GSR 56 (Optional)
• FIS-B Weather with the GDL 88 (Optional)
• Stormscope
®
(Optional)
4.1 Terrain Details
4.1.1 Terrain Configurations
The following terrain awareness configurations and alerting are available in
the G500/600 system:
• TAWS-B - A system developed to meet the terrain alerting and ground
proximity requirements for Class B TAWS systems as defined in TSO-C151c.
Garmin’s G500/600 Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS-B) is an
optional feature and is intended to provide the flight crew with both aural
and visual alerts to aid in preventing inadvertent Controlled Flight Into
Terrain (CFIT).