Garmin G500, Reference Manual

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G500/G600 Cockpit Reference Guide

190-00601-03 Rev H

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Warnings, Cautions, & Notes ............................................................................ ii
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
Primary Flight Display (PFD) ............................................................................. 2

Airspeed Tape ...............................................................................................................................................4
Altitude Tape ................................................................................................................................................6
Barometric Pressure ......................................................................................................................................6
Minimum Descent Altitude/Decision Height Alerting ......................................................................................7
Altitude Bug .................................................................................................................................................9
Fast/Slow Indication .....................................................................................................................................9
Wind Vectors ..............................................................................................................................................10
Vertical Speed (V/S) ....................................................................................................................................10
Vertical Deviation Indicator (VDI) ................................................................................................................11
Temperature Display ...................................................................................................................................11
DME Indication ...........................................................................................................................................12
Clock/Timer ................................................................................................................................................12
Attitude Indicator .......................................................................................................................................12
Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI): Aircraft Heading ...................................................................................13
Adjusting the Course Pointer ......................................................................................................................14
HSI Bearing Pointers ...................................................................................................................................14
Marker Beacon Annunciations .....................................................................................................................16
Miscompare Annunciations .........................................................................................................................17

Autopilot (AP) ................................................................................................. 19

GAD 43 Attitude .........................................................................................................................................19
Heading .....................................................................................................................................................20
Altitude Capture (Optional Upgrade) ...........................................................................................................20
Autopilot Navigation ..................................................................................................................................20
GPSS ..........................................................................................................................................................21
Flight Director Display .................................................................................................................................22
Vertical Speed Control ................................................................................................................................22
Autopilot Mode Annunciations ....................................................................................................................23

Additional Features ........................................................................................ 24

Synthetic Vision Technology

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Displaying SVT

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 Terrain ..............................................................................................................................25

Displaying Heading on the Horizon .............................................................................................................25
Displaying Airport Signs ..............................................................................................................................25

Multi-Function Display (MFD) ......................................................................... 26

Page Navigation - Moving Between Pages ..................................................................................................27
Changing Settings within a Page.................................................................................................................27
Default Map Page .......................................................................................................................................27
MFD Soft Key Map ......................................................................................................................................28

Map Group ..................................................................................................... 29

Navigation Map 1 and Navigation Map 2 Pages ..........................................................................................29
Decluttering (DCLTR) the Map Pages ...........................................................................................................30
Split Screen Page (Optional) ........................................................................................................................34
Traffic Map Page (Optional) ........................................................................................................................35
Terrain/TAWS-B Page ..................................................................................................................................41