Pilot's Guide

190-01255-01 Rev. A
Garmin G1000H
™
Pilot’s Guide for the Bell 407GX
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HAZARD AVOIDANCE
Enabling/Disabling Weather Product Information on the PFD Inset Map:
1) Press the INSET Softkey.
2) Press the WX LGND Softkey to display or remove weather product info and age data when a data link weather
product is selected for display on the PFD Inset Map.
TheSiriusXMWeatherservicebroadcastsweatherproductsatspecicintervals(denedintheBroadcast
RatecolumninTable6-1).Ifforanyreason,aproductisnotrefreshedwithintheBroadcast Rate intervals
(seeTable6-1),thesystemremovestheexpireddatafromthedisplay,andshowsdashesinsteadoftheproduct
age.  This ensures the displayed information is consistent with what is currently being transmitted by the
SiriusXMWeatherservice.Ifmorethanhalfoftheexpirationtimehaselapsed,thecoloroftheproductage
changestoyellow.Ifdataforaweatherproductisnotavailable,thesystemdisplays‘N/A’nexttotheweather
productsymbolinsteadoftheproductage.
Table6-1showstheweatherproductsymbols,theexpirationtimesandthebroadcastrates.Thebroadcast
raterepresentstheintervalatwhichtheSiriusXMWeatherservicetransmitsnewsignalsthatmayormaynot
containupdatedweatherproducts.Itdoesnotrepresenttherateatwhichtheweatherinformationisupdated
orwhentheDataLinkReceiverreceivesnewdata.SiriusXManditsweatherdatasuppliersdeneandcontrol
thedataupdateintervals,whicharesubjecttochange.