Pilot's Guide

Garmin G1000H

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Pilot’s Guide for the Bell 407GX

190-01255-01 Rev. A476

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

8.6 SATELLITE TELEPHONE AND SMS MESSAGING

NOTE

: Separate accounts must be established to access the Iridium satellite network for voice and Garmin

Connext

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for data transmission of maintenance reports.

Up to twooptionalGSR56Iridium Transceivers provideIridiumSatelliteTelephoneservice and SMS text

messaging. IridiumtelephoneandtextmessagingareavailabletotheightcrewthroughtheMulti-function

Display, audio panel and headset.  The system provides a telephone handset interface to be used for voice

communicationbetweentheaircraftcabinandthecockpitandforIridiumtelephoneserviceintheaircraftcabin.

Operationof thesefeatures inthecockpitisaccomplishedthrough theAUX-TELEPHONE andAUX-TEXT

MESSAGINGPages.Foroperationusingthecabinhandset,consulttheinstructionsprovidedwiththehandset.

REGISTERING WITH GARMIN CONNEXT

Asubscriberaccountmust be established priortousing the Iridium SatelliteSystem.Before settingupan

Iridiumaccount,obtaintheserialnumberoftheIridiumTransceiver(GSR1)andtheSystemIDbyselectingthe

AUX-SYSTEMSTATUSPageasshowninFigure8-75.ContactGarminat1-866-739-5687intheUnitedStates

or913-397-8200,ext.1135.

Aftera subscriberaccounthasbeenestablished, thesystemmustberegisteredfordatalink featuressuchas

SystemMaintenanceLoggingorConnext

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Weather.Registrationisaccomplishedbyenteringtherequiredaccess

code.ThisprocessisonlyperformedwheninitiallysettingupthesystemforGarminConnext

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services.

Figure 8-75 Identiﬁcation Needed for Iridium Registration

Iridium Transceiver Serial Number System ID Number