Cockpit Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Flight Instruments
- Selecting the Altimeter Barometric Pressure Setting
- Selecting Standard Barometric Pressure
- Change Altimeter Barometric Pressure Setting Units
- Synchronizing the Altimeter Barometric Pressure Settings
- Synchronize CDI
- Change Navigation Sources
- Enable/Disable OBS Mode While Navigating with GPS
- Generic Timer
- Configure Vspeed Bugs Individually
- Turn Vspeed Bugs On or Off by Category
- Set Minimum Descent Altitude/Decision Height
- Displaying Wind Data
- Engine & Airframe Systems
- Nav/Com/Transponder/Audio Panel
- Automatic Flight Control System
- GPS Navigation
- Flight Planning
- Weight Planning
- Trip Planning
- Create a User Waypoint Defined by Latitude & Longitude
- Create a User Waypoint Defined by Radials from Other Waypoints
- Create a User Waypoint Defined by a Radial & Distance from Another Waypoint
- Delete a User Waypoint
- Create a Flight Plan
- Import a Flight Plan from an SD Card
- Insert a Waypoint in the Active Flight Plan
- Enter an Airway in a Flight Plan
- Creating a User-Defined Hold at an Active Flight Plan Waypoint
- Creating a User-Defined Hold at the Aircraft Present Position
- Removing a User-Defined Hold (Created at the Aircraft P.POS)
- Removing a User-Defined Hold (Created at an Active Waypoint)
- Invert An Active Flight Plan
- Remove a Departure, Arrival, Approach, or Airway from a Flight Plan
- Store a Flight Plan
- Edit a Stored Flight Plan
- Delete a Waypoint from the Flight Plan
- Invert and Activate a Stored Flight Plan
- Copy a Flight Plan
- Delete a Flight Plan
- Graphical Flight Plan Creation
- Export a Flight Plan to an SD Card
- Procedures
- Load and Activate a Departure Procedure
- Activate A Departure Leg
- Load An Arrival Procedure
- Activate An Arrival Leg
- Load and/or Activate an Approach Procedure
- Activate An Approach in the Active Flight Plan
- Activate a Vector to Final Approach Fix
- Activate A Missed Approach in the Active Flight Plan
- Temperature Compensated Altitude
- Hazard Avoidance
- Customizing the Hazard Displays on the Navigation Map
- SiriusXM Weather (Subscription Optional)
- Connext Weather (Optional)
- Traffic Information Service (TIS)
- Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS II) (Optional)
- Terrain Awareness & Warning System
- Profile View Terrain and Obstacles (Optional)
- Airborne Color Weather Radar
- Additional Features
- Abnormal Operation
- Annunciations & Alerts
- CAS Messages
- Comparator Annunciations
- Reversionary Sensor Annunciations
- TAWS-A Alerts
- TAWS-B Alerts
- TCAS II Alerts and Annunciations
- CPDLC ATC Alert
- Other Prodigy® Aural Alerts
- Flight Plan Import/Export Messages
- Pilot Profile Import/Export Messages
- MFD & PFD Message Advisories
- Database Message Advisories
- GMA 1347D Message Advisories
- GIA 63W Message Advisories
- GSD 41 Message Advisories
- GEA 71 Message Advisories
- GTX 33 Message Advisories
- GRS 77 Message Advisories
- GMU 44 Message Advisories
- GSR 56 Message Advisories
- GDL 59 Message Advisories
- GDL 69A Message Advisories
- GDR 66 Message Advisories
- GWX 68 Alert Messages
- GCU 477 Message Advisories
- GMC 715 Message Advisories
- Miscellaneous Message Advisories
- Other System Annunciations
- Appendix
- Index
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Altitudes associated with arrival and approach procedures are “auto-designated”.
This means the system will automatically use the altitudes loaded with the arrival
or approach for giving vertical flight path guidance outside the FAF. Note that these
altitudes will be displayed as small light blue text.
Altitudes that are designated for use in vertical navigation may also be made “non-
designated” by placing the cursor over the desired altitude and pressing the CLR Key.
The altitude is now displayed only as a reference. It will not be used to give vertical
flight path guidance. Other displayed altitudes may change due to re-calculations
or rendered invalid as a result of manually changing an altitude to a non-designated
altitude.
NOTE: Making course changes greater than 90° during a descent with vertical
guidance may cause excessive and rapid movement of the vertical deviation
indicator, and SVT Pathways.
The system updates vertical path guidance continuously using ground speed and
the calculated distance to the Bottom of Descent (BOD). Due to turn anticipation
guidance (turn-smoothing), distance to the BOD can be affected by course changes
greater than approximately 5 degrees. Ground speed can be affected by factors such as
shifts in wind direction, aircraft power management, pitch angle, and course changes.
Abrupt and/or substantial changes to either the distance to the BOD, ground speed, or
both can cause similarly abrupt/substantial changes in vertical path guidance.
Because of turn-smoothing, changes to both distance to the BOD and ground speed
tend to be more extreme when the BOD is also a waypoint that marks a large course
change. These speed and distance changes will be accounted for in the computed
required vertical path and reflected in the vertical guidance indications.