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pflowers
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Posted: Mon Oct 15th, 2007 03:14 pm |
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| I have a GPS 400 in my King Air. There are many times that I want to know the bearing and distance to an airport/VOR/intersection etc. I can not find a way to get this information without making that item the active waypoint. This of course deactivates the current flight plan. The waypoint pages show only Lat/Lon information which is worthless. It would be nice to have bearing and distance information on the waypoint pages. Does anyone know how to get this information without making it the active waypoint?
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rkaplan
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Posted: Tue Oct 16th, 2007 02:11 am |
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pflowers wrote: I have a GPS 400 in my King Air. There are many times that I want to know the bearing and distance to an airport/VOR/intersection etc. I can not find a way to get this information without making that item the active waypoint. This of course deactivates the current flight plan. The waypoint pages show only Lat/Lon information which is worthless. It would be nice to have bearing and distance information on the waypoint pages. Does anyone know how to get this information without making it the active waypoint?
Solution 1: Go to the Nearest page and read the information you want if the desired waypoint is close enough to appear there. To go to nearest turn the large right knob to go to the nearest chapter and then turn the small right knob to select the page for airport/VOR/intersection.
Solution 2: Go to the map page. Turn on the cursor by pushing the right small knob. Move the large/small right knobs to pan to the desired waypoint and read the displayed bearing/distance.
Solution 3: Use a portable GPS for this info. A portable GPS is essential to almost any airplane for other backup/safety reasons. You can even interface the output of your GNS400 into most of the recent Garmin portables.
Solution 4: Turn on the cursor by pushing the small right knob. Press DIRECT and you will be lead through prompts which open up the User Waypoint page for a new waypoint (+MAP) at your present position. Among the items on that page will be bearing/distance in reference to a nearby VOR. You can change that VOR to another waypoint and the GPS will re-calculate the bearing/distance.
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